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Nightmare Abbey Online sfc4Y (Read now) Nightmare Abbey Online [sfc4Y.ebook] Nightmare Abbey Pdf Free Thomas Love Peacock audiobook | *ebooks | Download PDF | ePub | DOC Download Now Free Download Here Download eBook #4308177 in Books 2013-10-10Original language:English 9.00 x .19 x 6.00l, #File Name: 149292814384 pages | File size: 71.Mb Thomas Love Peacock : Nightmare Abbey before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised Nightmare Abbey: 0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. ... novella from because a clickbait "best of" list recommended it as a great horror novel of the 19th ...By Brian G. ParkerI downloaded this novella from because a clickbait "best of" list recommended it as a great horror novel of the 19th century. Nightmare Abbey taught me that the clickbait sites are using bots to make their lists. The only mention of anything vaguely horrible was the title, a mysterious person walking on the beach, and a ghost that turned out to be a sleepwalking servant.That said, Nightmare Abbey is a well- written and entertaining read. It's less than 200 pages long, free from .com, and a fun way to spend a couple of evenings away from political craziness.From Wikipedia: "Nightmare Abbey is a Gothic topical satire in which the author pokes light-hearted fun at the romantic movement in contemporary English literature, in particular its obsession with morbid subjects, misanthropy and transcendental philosophical systems. Most of the characters in the novella are based on historical figures whom Peacock wishes to pillory."2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. A Truly Great NovelBy Peter OakleyThis is Peacock at his best, with characters based on Coleridge, Shelley and Byron working together in one of Peacock's intricately-orchestrated plots, with Peacock's passionate opposition to the abuses in society visible through the shimmer of his exquisite humour. A wonderful book. Be careful to buy a copy which has all the pages printed (there are some cheap and careless editions around now), that have his learned footnotes in Greek and Latin typeset correctly (some typesetters just grab any symbol when they purport to be typesetting Greek; this brings out another of Peacock's themes, the general decline in education). By no means buy a Kindle edition, which cannot set footnotes satisfactorily and which usually makes a muddle of Greek.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Pay the man the two dollars: buy this bookBy James M. RawleyThomas Love Peacock was good buddies with Percy Bysshe Shelley, perhaps the most wildly melodramatic English poet of all time, and in contention to be considered the first hippie revolutionary ever. An excellent poet, too.Peacock made friendly fun of Shelley and other doom and gloom types in his most popular novel, NIGHTMARE ABBEY, which is available free from Kindle.But pay the two dollars and get this Tredition Classics edition. There are italics instead of capitals, and they spell tête-à-tête correctly, all accents included and in italics, without even pausing for breath. The margins are good, the spelling is perfect ... all things that cannot be said of the free editions.This is, like Peacock's other novels, a mere novella in length, and consists mainly of crazy conversations among lovable crazies like Shelley. Saintsbury called it "caviare to the general," and if that means you won't like it, then don't buy it -- but don't buy THIS edition rather than any of the others, because this one is very much the best.If, on the other hand, you have a yen for early nineteenth century British eccentric fiction, mixing wit and satire and quitting before the typical eccentric-lover can get bored ... then, again, this Tredition Classics edition is the best, and you should get it fast. It's the only book I've ever read that makes fun of Shelley and still sounds intelligent. One of the best books of all time, Thomas Love Peacock's Nightmare Abbey. If you haven't read this classic already, then you're missing out - read Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock today! “Though considered a light?even a slight?novel, Nightmare Abbey requires of its ideal reader extensive knowledge of the age that produced it: the literature, the politics, and, not least, the personalities associated with English Romanticism. Lisa Vargo succeeds admirably in bringing this rich background?masterfully synthesized in a critical introduction and amply documented in notes and appendices?to bear on the work for which its author is best known and which, as much as any other work of the period, engages English Romantic culture in all its numerous contradictory forms. Vargo has brought together the resources of recent Peacock scholarship and an invaluable archive of excerpted contemporary texts to produce an edition of Peacock’s most characteristic?and arguably his best?novel for a new generation of readers.” ? James Mulvihill, University of Alberta “Published in the same year as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Thomas Love Peacock’s Nightmare Abbey is not just a burlesque of the Gothic novel, but a sustained critique of what he regarded as ‘the darkness and misanthropy of modern literature.’ His witty satire on ‘the spirit of the age’ can best be understood through an awareness of its complex intertextual relations with other works of Romantic literature. To help promote such awareness, Lisa Vargo’s new Broadview edition provides a thoughtful introduction, detailed explanatory notes, and an exceptionally rich array of contextual material drawn from contemporary reviews of the novel, translations of earlier German literature, relevant works by Godwin, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, and Hazlitt, and, perhaps equally important, Peacock’s own critical and autobiographical writings.” ? Nicholas A. Joukovsky, Pennsylvania State University From the Back Cover This 1818 novel is set in a former abbey whose owner, Christopher Glowry, is host to visitors who enjoy his hospitality and engage in endless debate. Among these guests are figures recognizable to Peacock’s contemporaries, including characters based on Lord Byron and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Mr. Glowry’s son Scythrop (also modeled on a famous Romantic, Peacock’s friend Percy Bysshe Shelley) locks himself up in a tower where he reads German tragedies and transcendental philosophy and develops a “passion for reforming the world.” Disappointed in love, a sorrowful Scythrop decides the only thing to do is to commit suicide, but circumstances persuade him to instead follow his father in a love of misanthropy and Madeira. In addition to satire and comic romance, Nightmare Abbey presents a biting critique of the texts we view as central to British romanticism. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and a range of illuminating contemporary documents on the novel’s reception and its German and British literary contexts. A selection of Peacock’s critical and autobiographical writings is also included. About the Author Lisa Vargo is Associate Professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan. She is the editor of the Broadview edition of Mary Shelley’s Lodore (1997). [sfc4Y.ebook] Nightmare Abbey By Thomas Love Peacock PDF [sfc4Y.ebook] Nightmare Abbey By Thomas Love Peacock Epub [sfc4Y.ebook] Nightmare Abbey By Thomas Love Peacock Ebook [sfc4Y.ebook] Nightmare Abbey By Thomas Love Peacock Rar [sfc4Y.ebook] Nightmare Abbey By Thomas Love Peacock Zip [sfc4Y.ebook] Nightmare Abbey By Thomas Love Peacock Read Online.
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