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From: janney@unm-cvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Mervyn Peake
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Date: Thu, 21-Jun-84 04:45:21 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 21 04:45:21 1984
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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.