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Comes with 10+ illustrations "Mr. Glowry's son Scythrop 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. Thomas Love Peacock is literature’s perfect individualist. He has points in common with Aristophanes, Plato, Rabelais, Voltaire, and even Aldous Huxley, but resembles none of them; we can talk of the satirical novel of ideas, but his satire is too cheery and good-natured, his novel too rambling, and his ideas too jovially destructive for the label to stick. A romantic in his youth and a friend of Shelley, he happily made hay of the romantic movement in Nightmare Abbey, clamping Coleridge, Byron, and Shelley himself in a kind of painless pillory. And in Crotchet Castle he did no less for the political economists, pitting his gifts of exaggeration and ridicule against scientific progress and March of Mind. Yet the romantic in him never died the long, witty, and indecisive talk of his characters is set in wild, natural scenery which Peacock describes with true feeling.Nightmare Abbey Illustrated Sudoku Puzzle Thomas Love Peacock 9781547045716 Books
Originally published: 1818 (the same year as FRANKENSTEIN)58 pp. on Kindle, about 100 pp. in the Penquin Classics. Amazon says this takes less than ninety minutes to read. George Saintsbury says about an hour. Your mileage (and mine) may vary, but this did read very quickly, despite the tediousness of some of the gags.
Here is an early excerpt- you may judge whether this is congenial or would bore and frustrate you:
... Disappointed both in love and in friendship, and looking upon human learning as vanity, he had come to a conclusion that there was but one good thing in the world, videlicet, a good dinner; and this his parsimonious lady seldom suffered him to enjoy: but, one morning, like Sir Leoline in Christabel, 'he woke and found his lady dead,' and remained a very consolate widower, with one small child.
This only son and heir Mr Glowry had christened Scythrop, from the name of a maternal ancestor, who had hanged himself one rainy day in a fit of toedium vitae, and had been eulogised by a coroner's jury in the comprehensive phrase of felo de se; on which account, Mr Glowry held his memory in high honour, and made a punchbowl of his skull...
When I first discovered Peacock for myself, about twenty years ago, I thought he was the 'hidden classic,' the great writer no one knew. All his books are quick, sometimes funny, epicurean and satirical. Aldous Huxley's early novels were said to be modeled on Peacock's.
NIGHTMARE ABBEY has retained a little more notoriety than HEADLONG HALL or CROTCHET CASTLE because of the caricatures of Shelley, Coleridge, and Byron, all present, all lightly mocked. One more excerpt:
... I must apologise for intruding on you, Mr Flosky; but the interest which I—you—take in my cousin Scythrop—
MR FLOSKY
Pardon me, Miss O'Carroll; I do not take any interest in any person or thing on the face of the earth; which sentiment, if you analyse it, you will find to be the quintessence of the most refined philanthropy.
MARIONETTA
I will take it for granted that it is so, Mr Flosky; I am not conversant with metaphysical subtleties, but—
MR FLOSKY
Subtleties! my dear Miss O'Carroll. I am sorry to find you participating in the vulgar error of the reading public, to whom an unusual collocation of words, involving a juxtaposition of antiperistatical ideas, immediately suggests the notion of hyperoxysophistical paradoxology.
MARIONETTA
Indeed, Mr Flosky, it suggests no such notion to me. I have sought you for the purpose of obtaining information.
MR FLOSKY (shaking his head)
No one ever sought me for such a purpose before...
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Nightmare Abbey Illustrated Sudoku Puzzle Thomas Love Peacock 9781547045716 Books Reviews
This 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 edition, which cannot set footnotes satisfactorily and which usually makes a muddle of Greek.
Brilliantly funny but be warned...despite many Internet articles claiming this to be one of the scariest novels ever written, this is *not* a scary novel nor was it ever intended to be scary. It is social commentary, using the gothic romance style and Peacock is poking fun of writers like Shelley and Byron. Brilliant, but if you are looking for a scary horror novel, you will be hugely disappointed.
Thomas 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 .
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.
I 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 , 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."
Originally published 1818 (the same year as FRANKENSTEIN)
58 pp. on , about 100 pp. in the Penquin Classics. says this takes less than ninety minutes to read. George Saintsbury says about an hour. Your mileage (and mine) may vary, but this did read very quickly, despite the tediousness of some of the gags.
Here is an early excerpt- you may judge whether this is congenial or would bore and frustrate you
... Disappointed both in love and in friendship, and looking upon human learning as vanity, he had come to a conclusion that there was but one good thing in the world, videlicet, a good dinner; and this his parsimonious lady seldom suffered him to enjoy but, one morning, like Sir Leoline in Christabel, 'he woke and found his lady dead,' and remained a very consolate widower, with one small child.
This only son and heir Mr Glowry had christened Scythrop, from the name of a maternal ancestor, who had hanged himself one rainy day in a fit of toedium vitae, and had been eulogised by a coroner's jury in the comprehensive phrase of felo de se; on which account, Mr Glowry held his memory in high honour, and made a punchbowl of his skull...
When I first discovered Peacock for myself, about twenty years ago, I thought he was the 'hidden classic,' the great writer no one knew. All his books are quick, sometimes funny, epicurean and satirical. Aldous Huxley's early novels were said to be modeled on Peacock's.
NIGHTMARE ABBEY has retained a little more notoriety than HEADLONG HALL or CROTCHET CASTLE because of the caricatures of Shelley, Coleridge, and Byron, all present, all lightly mocked. One more excerpt
... I must apologise for intruding on you, Mr Flosky; but the interest which I—you—take in my cousin Scythrop—
MR FLOSKY
Pardon me, Miss O'Carroll; I do not take any interest in any person or thing on the face of the earth; which sentiment, if you analyse it, you will find to be the quintessence of the most refined philanthropy.
MARIONETTA
I will take it for granted that it is so, Mr Flosky; I am not conversant with metaphysical subtleties, but—
MR FLOSKY
Subtleties! my dear Miss O'Carroll. I am sorry to find you participating in the vulgar error of the reading public, to whom an unusual collocation of words, involving a juxtaposition of antiperistatical ideas, immediately suggests the notion of hyperoxysophistical paradoxology.
MARIONETTA
Indeed, Mr Flosky, it suggests no such notion to me. I have sought you for the purpose of obtaining information.
MR FLOSKY (shaking his head)
No one ever sought me for such a purpose before...
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