Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock
"Nightmare Abbey" by Thomas Love Peacock is a novella written in 1818 that satirizes the gloomy excesses of Romantic literature. Set in an isolated mansion, the story follows melancholy Christopher Glowry and his son Scythrop, who becomes entangled with two women while hiding a mysterious fugitive. Through eccentric characters and their philosophical conversations, Peacock lampoons the era's obsession with morbid subjects and misanthropy, contrasting overheated imagination with everyday reality through light-hearted ridicule.
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| Author | Peacock, Thomas Love, 1785-1866 |
|---|---|
| Title | Nightmare Abbey |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightmare_Abbey |
| Credits | Produced by Suzanne Shell, Tom Allen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 65.5 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Humorous stories |
| Subject | Gothic fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 9909 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-09909-5 |
| Release Date | Feb 1, 2006 |
| Last Update | Dec 27, 2020 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 955 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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