Nightmare Abbey Annotated

Author : Thomas Peacock
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781499724073
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nightmare Abbey (Annotated) written by Thomas Peacock and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-05-30 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nightmare Abbey was the third of Thomas Love Peacock's novels It was written in late March and June 1818, and published in London in November of the same year 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 novel are based on historical figures whom Peacock wishes to pillory. Insofar as Nightmare Abbey may be said to have a plot, it follows the fortunes of Christopher Glowry, Esquire, a morose widower who lives with his only son Scythrop in his semi-dilapidated family mansion Nightmare Abbey, which is situated on a strip of dry land between the sea and the fens in Lincolnshire.

Author : Thomas Love Peacock
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nightmare Abbey Annotated written by Thomas Love Peacock and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-07-04 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nightmare Abbey is an 1818 novella by Thomas Love Peacock, and his third long work of fiction to be published. It was written in late March and June 1818, and published in London in November of the same year by T. Hookham Jr of Old Bond Street and Baldwin, Craddock & Joy of Paternoster Row. The novella was lightly revised by the author in 1837 for republication in Volume 57 of Bentley's Standard Novels.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.

Author : Thomas Love Peacock
Publisher : London : Dent
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nightmare Abbey written by Thomas Love Peacock and published by London : Dent. This book was released on 1891 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Love Peacock
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 3986773517
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nightmare Abbey written by Thomas Love Peacock and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-12-11 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock - Nightmare Abbey is an 1818 novella by Thomas Love Peacock which makes good-natured fun of contemporary literary trends. Nightmare Abbey was Peacock's third long work of fiction to be published. It was written in late March and June 1818, and published in London in November of the same year. The novella was lightly revised by the author in 1837 for republication in Volume 57 of Bentley's Standard Novels. The book is Peacock's most well-liked and frequently-read work. The novel was a topical work of Gothic fiction in which the author satirised tendencies in contemporary English literature, in particular Romanticism's obsession with morbid subjects, misanthropy and transcendental philosophical systems. Most of its characters are based on historical figures whom Peacock wished to pillory. It has been observed that "the plots of Peacock's novels are mostly devices for bringing the persons together and the persons are merely the embodiment of whims and theories, or types of a class". Nightmare Abbey embodies the critique of a particular mentality and pillories the contemporary vogue for the macabre. To his friend Percy Bysshe Shelley, Peacock described the object of his novel as being "to bring to a sort of philosophical focus a few of the morbidities of modern literature". Appearing in the same year as Northanger Abbey, it similarly contrasts the product of the inflamed imagination, or what Peacock's Mr Hilary describes as the "conspiracy against cheerfulness", with the commonplace course of everyday life, with the aid of light-hearted ridicule. Several of the chapters take a dramatic form interspersed with stage directions in order to illustrate without comment how much the speakers characterise themselves through their conversation. The actor and director Anthony Sharp was eventually to take this approach to its logical conclusion and reduced the whole novel to a successful and popular script. First performed in February 1952, it was eventually published in 1971.

Author : Thomas Love Peacock
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781537021331
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nightmare Abbey written by Thomas Love Peacock and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Love Peacock was a 19th-century English novelist and poet. Peacock was also a close friend to the legendary poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and they both were key influences in each other's work. Peacock was noted for his satirical novels. Nightmare Abbey is Peacock's most famous work. The book is a gothic satire that made fun of the Romantic movement in English literature. The story centers around the fortunes of Christoper Glowry.

Author : Peacock Thomas Love
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789358593129
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nightmare Abbey written by Peacock Thomas Love and published by . This book was released on 2023-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nightmare Abbey" is a satirical Gothic novella written by Thomas Love Peacock and published in 1818. The story revolves around Christopher Glowry, a melancholic widower who lives with his son Scythrop in the isolated Nightmare Abbey. The novel satirizes the morbid themes, misanthropy, and philosophical systems prevalent in contemporary English literature, particularly Romanticism. The plot follows the eccentric and peculiar characters who visit Nightmare Abbey, including Mr. Hilary, Scythrop's flirtatious love interest Marionetta, and Celinda Toobad, who seeks refuge from an unwanted engagement. Complications arise when Scythrop finds himself torn between Marionetta and Celinda, unable to choose between them. The story takes a dramatic turn with the appearance of a ghostly figure and reports of haunting in the abbey. However, it is later revealed to be the result of Mr. Glowry's somnambulant steward. "Nightmare Abbey" stands as a significant work in the tradition of English satirical fiction. Peacock's sharp observations and astute critique of his contemporary society make it a valuable piece of literature that continues to be celebrated for its humor and social commentary.

Author : Thomas Love Peacock
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.CC/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nightmare Abbey written by Thomas Love Peacock and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2017-12-20T21:11:54Z with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1818, Peacock’s novella Nightmare Abbey is a gentle satire of the then-popular gothic movement in literature. He pokes fun at the genre’s obsessions and most of the book’s characters are caricatures of well-known personages of the time. Young Scythrop is the only son of Mr. Glowry, living in the semi-ruined Nightmare Abbey on his estate in Lincolnshire. Mr. Glowry, the survivor of a miserable marriage, is addicted to the depressing and the morbid, surrounding himself with servants whose names, such as Raven, Graves and Skellet, reflect his obsessions. His friends, also, are chosen from those who best reflect his misanthropic views. Scythrop himself imagines himself a philosopher with a unique view of the world, and to this end has written a treatise titled “Philosophical Gas; or, a Project for a General Illumination of the Human Mind.” Only seven copies of this treatise have ever been sold, and Scythrop dreams of being united with one of the buyers. His passions, though, become more earthy when he falls in love both with his cousin Marionetta and then also with a mysterious woman who appears in his apartment and begs him for asylum, thus creating a situation of romantic farce as he tries to decide between the two. These events are interleaved between entertaining discussions among the varied guests at Nightmare Abbey, richly filled with humor, allusions and quotation. Nightmare Abbey is probably Peacock’s most successful work of fiction, and helped establish his position as an important satirist of his times. His satire, though, is light-hearted rather than savage and is directed more at foolish opinions than attacking particular persons. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

Author : Thomas Love Peacock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783756246045
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nightmare Abbey written by Thomas Love Peacock and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Love Peacock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nightmare Abbey written by Thomas Love Peacock and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Love Peacock
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781507704899
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nightmare Abbey written by Thomas Love Peacock and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-01-24 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nightmare Abbey By Thomas Love Peacock Classic Gothic Fiction Nightmare Abbey was the third of Thomas Love Peacock's novels to be published. It was written in late March and June 1818, and published in London in November of the same year by T. Hookham Jr of Old Bond Street and Baldwin, Craddock & Joy of Paternoster Row. The novel was lightly revised by the author in 1837 for republication in Volume 57 of Bentley's Standard Novels. 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 novel are based on historical figures whom Peacock wishes to pillory. Insofar as Nightmare Abbey may be said to have a plot, it follows the fortunes of Christopher Glowry, Esquire, a morose widower who lives with his only son Scythrop in his semi-dilapidated family mansion Nightmare Abbey, which is situated on a strip of dry land between the sea and the fens in Lincolnshire. Mr Glowry is a melancholy gentleman who likes to surround himself with servants with long faces or dismal names such as Raven, Graves or Deathshead. The few visitors he welcomes to his home are mostly of a similar cast of mind: Mr Flosky, a transcendental philosopher; Mr Toobad, a Manichaean Millenarian; Mr Listless, Scythrop's languid and world-weary college friend; and Mr Cypress, a misanthropic poet. The only exception is the sanguine Mr Hilary, who, as Mr Glowry's brother-in-law, is obliged to visit the abbey from family interests. The Reverend Mr Larynx, the vicar of nearby Claydyke, readily adapts himself to whatever company he is in.