Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site unm-cvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!lanl-a!unm-cvax!janney From: janney@unm-cvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Mervyn Peake Message-ID: <966@unm-cvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 21-Jun-84 04:45:21 EDT Article-I.D.: unm-cvax.966 Posted: Thu Jun 21 04:45:21 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jun-84 10:17:38 EDT References: <1025@sri-arpa.UUCP> Organization: Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque Lines: 10 As long as we're discussing Mervyn Peake, I'd like to mention that there are two different versions of the last book Titus Alone, one more incomplete than the other. Peake intended to write 5 or 6 books, but he suffered a stroke and was unable to complete Titus Alone. The Ballantine edition, the one most generally available in this country, is Peake's typewritten first draft. There is another version, published by Penguin in England and recently available in hardcover in the US, that incorporates his hand- written revisions to the first draft. You can recognise this version because it has a preface by Langdon Jones. It doesn't add a lot of new material but it is much more coherent. Good stuff.