Peake's Progress

By Mervyn Peake and Alain Draeger

Book Overview

Peake's Progress is a selection, compiled by his widow, Maeve Gilmore, from every period of his work as a writer and draughtsman. It contains a remarkable work from childhood. The White Chief of the Umzimbooboo Kaffirs, the early Mr. Slaughterboard, which foreshadows the Titus books, two plays, the Wit to Woo and Noah's Ark, a broadcast version of Mr. Pye, and a generous selection of Peake's short stories, poems and nonsense verses as well as his drawings. Including a new preface written by Mervyn Peake's son, Sebastian, this edition of Peake's Progress is published to coincide with the centenary of Peake's birth.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879511214
• ISBN13: 9780879511210
• Release Date: June 1981
• Publisher: Overlook Books
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 1.0" x 5.0"