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Nightmare Abbey [Paperback]

Thomas Love Peacock
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15 July 2002
Mr. Glowry was a very consolate widower, with one small child. That child -- a son -- was named Scythrop, after a maternal ancestor who had hanged himself one rainy day in a fit of tedium. The coroner's jury eulogized him with the comprehensive phrase of felo de se -- on which account Mr. Glowry held his memory in high honor, and made a punchbowl of his skull.

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  • Paperback: 124 pages
  • Publisher: Wildside Press (15 July 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1587159953
  • ISBN-13: 978-1587159954
  • Product Dimensions: 15.2 x 0.7 x 22.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,372,268 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Spitting Image 200 years ago. 12 Oct 2012
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A lovely romp - I haven't enjoyed this kind of thing so much since Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons) and Summer Moonshine (P.G. Wodehouse - much more fun than the better known Jeeves stuff). Just the right length - Peacock doesn't overdo it. But I suppose its appeal is limited to those of a literary bent - though with the ready availability of so much excellent free or cheap material from the 19th Century, our numbers should be growing. I would recommend a quick brush up on Shelley and Byron first (Wikipedia does the job well enough) to maximise Peacock's wicked spitting images.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant but not always 30 Sep 2012
By AndyP
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A wonderful satire of the Romantic movement. Verbose, but Love Peackock's use of English is humerous and a pure delight to read. The novella is not consistant in its genial use of language but his descriptions of the main characters are fabulous,Mr Listless " stretched on the rack of a too-easychair" with many memorable quotes. " I'm sorry to see you falling into the habit of the general reading public to whom an unusual collocation of words involving the juxtaposition of antiperistatical ideas, immediately suggests the notion of hyperoxysophistical parodoxology". I would also recommend "Crochet Castle", maybe an even more interesting work by this author. I read both of them again and again and now on kindle. You can't go wrong
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4.0 out of 5 stars Short, easy and fun 18 Jan 2013
By DavidA
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I read this mainly because in his biography of Coleridge, Holmes mentions that some of the characters are (loosely) based on Coleridge, Shelley and Byron. I was pleasantly surprised. It rather unexpectedly reminded me of the early Evelyn Waugh in style - which is surprising given the century separating them.
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