Bibliographic information:
ISBN: 9781913724078
Paperback • 160pp • £7.99
129 mm x 198 mm
28 July 2021
BIC: FC, WH, FKC
Territory: World English

Nightmare Abbey

Thomas Love Peacock

Paperback

160pp

ISBN: 9781913724078

£7.99

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Nightmare Abbey is a novella by Thomas Love Peacock, first published in 1818, widely considered to be Peacock’s most enduringly popular work. The narrative centres on Christopher Glowry, a miserly widower, his son Scythrop and a host of dismal-sounding servants in his family pile, Nightmare Abbey. Recovering from an ill-fated love affair, Scythrop dreams up various schemes to reform and regenerate the human species, but misanthropy lurks around every corner, and everything changes when a mermaid is spotted and a strange woman appears in his chamber.

Although fundamentally a Gothic novel, and rich in allusion – from Pope to Dante, Rossini to Mozart – Nightmare Abbey is, at heart, a satire, as Peacock makes clear in the preface to a later edition, in which he describes the characters – allusions to his friends – as ‘status-quo-ites’, ‘morbid visionaries’, ‘romantic enthusiasts’ and ‘lovers of good dinners’.

 
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Thomas Love Peacock

Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) was a poet and author, best known today for his novels Nightmare Abbey and Melincourt.

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