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Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake; Quentin Crisp (Afterword by)
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: Gormenghast Trilogy Ser.
Enter the world of Gormenghast...the vast crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is Lord and heir. Gothic labyrinth of roofs and turrets, cloisters and corridors, stairwells and dungeons, it is also the cobwebbed kingdom of Byzantine government and age-old rituals, a world prim ...Show more
Naked Civil Servant (Penguin Classics) by CRISP Quentin
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
"As soon as I stepped out of my mother's womb...I realized that I had made a mistake, " Quentin Crisp declares, giving a small hint of the witty and wry approach he takes toward the life he describes with uninhibited exuberance in this classic autobiography, which is both a comic masterpiece and a uniqu ...Show more
The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp
Category: Biography
In this autobiography, Quentin Crisp describes his unhappy childhood and the stresses of adolescence that led him to London. There in bedsits and cafes he found a world of brutality and comedy, of shortlived jobs and precarious relationships. All of which he faced with humour and intelligence.
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