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Nightmare Abbey

by Thomas Love Peacock

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1818
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  2. Chapter 02

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  3. Chapter 03

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  4. Chapter 04

    10:46

  5. Chapter 05

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  6. Chapter 06

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  7. Chapter 07

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  8. Chapter 08

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  9. Chapter 09

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  10. Chapter 10

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  11. Chapter 11

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  12. Chapter 12

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  13. Chapter 13

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  14. Chapter 14

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  15. Chapter 15

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Thomas Love Peacock aimed his wit squarely at the fashionable gloom of his Romantic contemporaries. At the half-ruined Nightmare Abbey, the misanthropic widower Christopher Glowry presides over a household of eccentrics while his lovesick son Scythrop dithers between two very different women and hides a mysterious fugitive in his tower. The talkers who drift through the house are thinly veiled portraits of Peacock's circle, with Scythrop modeled on Shelley, the transcendental Mr. Flosky on Coleridge, and the doom-laden poet Mr. Cypress on Byron. Their absurd conversations puncture the era's taste for despair, German metaphysics, and gothic dread. Short, sharp, and genuinely funny, it remains the best loved of Peacock's conversation novels. A free PDF and EPUB edition is available here.

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Thomas Love Peacock

Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) was an English novelist and poet, and a close friend of Percy Shelley. Largely self-taught, he spent his career at the East India Company while writing satirical conversation novels that skewered the intellectual fashions of his day.

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First published
1818
Reading time
About 2 hours
Pages
88
Language
English
Genre
Satire
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Mark F. Smith