| Nightmare Abbey Contributor(s): Peacock, Thomas Love (Author) |
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ISBN: 1719210144 ISBN-13: 9781719210140 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $6.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Gothic - Fiction | Humorous - Black Humor |
| Physical Information: 0.1" H x 6" W x 9" (0.18 lbs) 50 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |