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Nightmare Abbey
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ISBN13: 9781025391557
Publisher: Tradd Street Press
Published: Feb 14 2026
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Nightmare Abbey is a brilliant satirical novella that serves as a sharp and witty parody of the prevailing trends in early 19th-century English literature. The work targets the melancholic excesses of the Romantic movement and the gloomy tropes of the Gothic novel. Set in a semi-dilapidated mansion in the fens of Lincolnshire, the story follows the fortunes of Christopher Glowry and his son, Scythrop, whose morbid dispositions provide the perfect backdrop for a series of intellectual farces and romantic complications.
Thomas Love Peacock populates the narrative with characters who are thinly veiled caricatures of his famous contemporaries, including figures inspired by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Through their philosophical debates and absurd entanglements, Nightmare Abbey lampoons the transcendentalism and misanthropy that characterized the elite literary circles of the era. The novel is celebrated for its linguistic agility, clever dialogue, and its ability to critique intellectual fads with humor and insight. As a masterpiece of conversational satire, Nightmare Abbey remains an essential piece of British literature, offering a humorous perspective on the evolution of the English comic novel and the personalities of the Romantic age.
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