Nightmare Abbey
Nightmare Abbey is a novella by Thomas Love Peacock, first published in 1818, widely considered to be Peacock's most enduringly popular work. The narrative centres on Christopher Glowry, a miserly widower, his son Scythrop and a host of dismal-sounding servants in his family pile, Nightmare Abbey. Recovering from an ill-fated love affair, Scythrop dreams up various schemes to reform and regenerate the human species, but misanthropy lurks around every corner, and everything changes when a mermaid is spotted and a strange woman appears in his chamber.Although fundamentally a Gothic novel, and rich in allusion - from Pope to Dante, Rossini to Mo…
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- ISBN: 978-1-913724-07-8
- EAN: 9781913724078
- Produktnummer: 35766285
- Verlag: Renard Press Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Masse: H13.0 cm x B19.9 cm x D1.8 cm 158 g
- Gewicht: 158
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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