Peake's Progress

Peake's Progress is a selection, compiled by his widow, Maeve Gilmore, from every period of his work as a writer and draughtsman. It contains a remarkable work from childhood, "The White Chief of the Umzimbooboo Kaffirs;" the early "Mr. Slaughterboard," which foreshadows the "Titus" books; two plays, "The Wit to Woo" and "Noah's Ark;" a broadcast version of "Mr. Pye," and a generous selection of Peake's short stories, poems and nonsense verses and drawings―all of them adding new perspectives on this prolific and astonishingly original writer.Including a new preface written by Mervyn Peake's son, Sebastian, this edition of Peake's Progress is published to coincide with the centenary of Peake's birth.