Mervyn Peake (1911–1968)
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American libertarians would be particularly interested in Peake’s great novel, since the perspective on the individual and society that pervades it is very libertarian in the broadest sense of that word...Most people who know about this work don’t think of it as a single novel. They think of it as three novels — a trilogy — and they call it “the Gormenghast Trilogy.”