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Peake, Mervyn
Peake, Mervyn
(1911-68) a British writer and
illustrator
(=
someone who draws pictures for books
)
, whose novels
Titus Groan
,
Gormenghast
, and
Titus Alone
describe the strange imaginary world of Gormenghast castle
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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