Requirements: .PDF reader, 15.2MB
Overview: G. Peter Winnington’s Mervyn Peake’s Vast Alchemies: The Illustrated Biography is the result of many years of research into Peake’s life and work. It follows Peake, the son of missionary parents, from China to art school in London and his time in an artists’ colony in the Channel Islands. It covers in detail his experiences in the army during the Second World War, an unhappy period during which he wrote Titus Groan and the huge influence that his visit to the newly liberated concentration camp at Belsen had on his work. The next ten years of his life were without doubt his most productive, but by the mid-1950s he was beginning to show signs of the degenerative illness that eventually killed him in 1968. Winnington examines the novels, poems, illustrations and plays and discusses how Peake’s life and experiences were channelled through his unique imagination into his work.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
Download Instructions:
https://ouo.io/MXh155
https://ouo.io/7Yg9CVF.
