Nightmare Abbey

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Nightmare Abbey
Folio Society
Literature

Nightmare Abbey

Thomas Love Peacock
Edition year 1994
Binding Cloth
Illustrator Peter Forster
Weight 0.75 Kg
Pages 126
Dimensions 22.8 × 15 cm

Edition details

Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock, introduced by Marilyn Butler, illustrations by Peter Forster (frontispiece, 12 full page drawings, 29 smaller designs, 8 small tail-pieces and a wood-engraved border and ornament on the title page). Full purple cloth with a design in black by Forster, black endleaves. Black slipcase titled in gold. 22.8 x 15 cm. 126 pp.

About the book

Thomas Love Peacock's Nightmare Abbey is a short comic novel satirising the gloomy attitudes and intellectual fashions of the Romantic period. The story centres on the melancholy Scythrop Glowry and a group of eccentric visitors whose conversations parody contemporary writers, philosophers and political thinkers. Witty and highly literary, the novel gently mocks Romantic pessimism, fashionable despair and the tendency of intellectuals to take themselves too seriously.

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