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Published in 1818, Peacock’s novella Nightmare Abbey is a gentle satire of the then-popular gothic movement in literature. He pokes fun at the genre’s obsessions and most of the book’s characters are caricatures of well-known personages of the time.
Young Scythrop is the only son of Mr. Glowry, living in the semi-ruined Nightmare Abbey on his estate in Lincolnshire. Mr. Glowry, the survivor of a miserable marriage, is addicted to the depressing and the morbid, surrounding himself with servants whose names, such as Raven, Graves and Skellet, reflect his obsessions. His friends, also, are chosen from those who best reflect his misanthropic views.
Scythrop himself imagines himself a philosopher with a unique view of the world, and to this end has written a treatise titled “Philosophical Gas; or, a Project for a General Illumination of the Human Mind.” Only seven copies of this treatise have ever been sold, and Scythrop dreams of being united with one of the buyers. His passions, though, become more earthy when he falls in love both with his cousin Marionetta and then also with a mysterious woman who appears in his apartment and begs him for asylum, thus creating a situation of romantic farce as he tries to decide between the two.
These events are interleaved between entertaining discussions among the varied guests at Nightmare Abbey, richly filled with humor, allusions and quotation.
Nightmare Abbey is probably Peacock’s most successful work of fiction, and helped establish his position as an important satirist of his times. His satire, though, is light-hearted rather than savage and is directed more at foolish opinions than attacking particular persons.
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Adaptations, Arthurian romances, Classic Literature, Fiction, Kings and rulers, Thriller, Fiction, humorous, general, Fiction, religious, Fiction, horror, Fiction, historical, general, Gothic novel, Englisch, Authors, fiction, English poetry, Fiction, gothic, Fiction, humorous, Peacock, thomas love, 1785-1866Edition | Availability |
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Nightmare Abbey: By Thomas Love Peacock - Illustrated
2017, Independently Published
in English
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Nightmare Abbey: By Thomas Love Peacock - Illustrated
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Nightmare Abbey: The Original 1818 Novella Edition by Thomas Love Peacock
2017, Independently Published
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Nightmare Abbey
Sep 29, 2016, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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May 04, 2016, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Apr 15, 2014, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Nightmare Abbey [Christmas Summary Classics]
Dec 18, 2013, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Nightmare Abbey
2012, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Nightmare Abbey
May 30, 2006, Paperbackshop.Co.UK Ltd - Echo Library
Paperback
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March 30, 2006, Paperbackshop.Co.UK Ltd - Echo Library
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Nightmare Abbey (Clear Print)
July 10, 2003, Echo Library
Paperback
in English
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Nightmare Abbey
January 30, 1996, Audio Book Contractors
Audio Cassette
in English
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Nightmare Abbey
1992, Woodstock Books, Distributed in USA by Publishers Distribution Center
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Nightmare Abbey / The misfortunes of Elphin / Crotchet Castle.
1971, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
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Nightmare Abbey
1818, Printed for T. Hookham, Jun. and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy
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Nightmare Abbey
Publish date unknown, Phoenix mass market p/bk
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Nightmare Abbey, a venerable family-mansion, in a highly picturesque state of semi-dilapidation, pleasantly situated on a strip of dry land between the sea and the fens, at the verge of the county of Lincoln, had the honour to be the seat of Christopher Glowry, Esquire. This gentleman was naturally of an atrabilarious temperament, and much troubled with those phantoms of indigestion which are commonly called blue devils.
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