Letters from a Lost Uncle by Mervyn Peake

Letters from a Lost Uncle by Mervyn Peake

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Zusammenfassung

Full colour, re-originated edition of a forgotten classic by the author of "Gormenghast". "I am now many miles further to the North-East and am writing from a cave in a gaunt hillside. When Jackson and I sat down to rest we could see our footprints stretching back to the edge of the world..."

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Letters from a Lost Uncle by Mervyn Peake

Lost in the frozen polar wastes, an explorer huddles in his shelter, typing, with frozen fingers, the story of his lonely, extraordinary exploits, preparing to send the story to the nephew he has never seen. With his only companion, the tortoise-like mutant Jackson, the Uncle has gone in search of his ambition and his destiny: the awesome and mysterious White Lion. Illustrated on every page with stunning, beautiful, eerie original drawings, "Letters from a Lost Uncle" is the product of a unique imagination and a distillation of all that is most powerful in the strange genius of Mervyn Peake. Painstakingly re-originated from Peake's original artwork and typescript, this edition celebrates the centenary of Mervyn Peake's birth in 2011 and is re-issued alongside Peake's illustrated edition of Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" (Methuen ISBN 978 0413 777140).
Mervyn Peake (1911-68) was a novelist, playwright, painter, poet, illustrator, short story writer, designer and war artist.
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ISBN 13 9780413777133
ISBN 10 0413777138
Titel Letters from a Lost Uncle
Autor Mervyn Peake
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Bindungsart Hardback
Verlag Methuen Publishing Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr 2012-03-22
Seitenanzahl 128
Hinweis auf dem Einband Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.
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