Titus Alone Author:Mervyn Peake This is the third volume in the "Gormenghast" Trilogy, in which Titus turns against the iron discipline of Gormenghast's ritual and sets forth on an uncertain quest... — "That quest and its resolution form the substance of "Titus Alone." Titus's quest is for himself. His pilgrimage leads to encounters with mysteriously omnipotent police; a batt... more »le to the death with Veil, a gaunt ogre with a body like whips and a face that moves 'like the shiftings of the gray slime of the pit'..." - The National Observer« less