As he slips the painter on the canoe, he has his first encounter with two faceless, silent persons, ostensibly police officers. Skyscrapers tower and the river itself is covered in pipes, canals and fishermen. Titus bumbles through a desert for a time, then uses a canoe to row down the river, where the reader gets a surprise: although Gormenghast is a crumbling, medieval castle, Titus finds himself in a modern city. The story follows Titus as he journeys through the world outside Gormenghast Castle, having left his home at the end of the second book. It was re-edited by Langdon Jones in 1970 using the original manuscript. With the trilogy, a fourth work, the novella Boy in Darkness, and a fifth, the fragment Titus Awakes, are often considered part of a larger "Gormenghast series". The other works are Titus Groan, and Gormenghast. It is the third work in the Gormenghast trilogy. Titus Alone is a novel written by Mervyn Peake and first published in 1959.
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