Nightmare Abbey
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (678 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B071HQ9399 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 422 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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novella from Amazon because a clickbait "best of" list recommended it as a great horror novel of the 19th Brian G. Parker I downloaded this novella from Amazon because a clickbait "best of" list recommended it as a great horror novel of the 19th century. Nightmare Abbey taught me that the clickbait sites are using bots to make their lists. The only mention of anything vaguely horrible was the title, a mysterious person walking on the beach, and a ghost that turned out to be a sleepwalking servant.That said, Nightmare Abbey is a well-written and entertaining read. It's less than 200 pages long, free from Amazon.com, and a fun way to spend a couple of evenings away from political craziness.From Wikipedia: "Nightmare Abbey is a Gothic topical satire in whi. A Truly Great Novel This is Peacock at his best, with characters based on Coleridge, Shelley and Byron working together in one of Peacock's intricately-orchestrated plots, with Peacock's passionate opposition to the abuses in society visible through the shimmer of his exquisite humour. A wonderful book. Be careful to buy a copy which has all the pages printed (there are some cheap and careless editions around now), that have his learned footnotes in Greek and Latin typeset correctly (some typesetters just grab any symbol when they purport to be typesetting Greek; this brings out another of Peacock's themes, the general decline in education). By no means. James M. Rawley said Pay the man the two dollars: buy this book. Thomas Love Peacock was good buddies with Percy Bysshe Shelley, perhaps the most wildly melodramatic English poet of all time, and in contention to be considered the first hippie revolutionary ever. An excellent poet, too.Peacock made friendly fun of Shelley and other doom and gloom types in his most popular novel, NIGHTMARE ABBEY, which is available free from Kindle.But pay the two dollars and get this Tredition Classics edition. There are italics instead of capitals, and they spell tête-à-tête correctly, all accents included and in italics, without even pausing for breath. The margins are good, the spelling is pe
Flosky perhaps representing a caricature of Coleridge, Scythrop Glowry as Shelley, and Mr. Cypress as Byron, the author gathers characters in an old mansion in order to satirize concepts of romanticism in England in the early 1800s.. Instead, with Mr. Don't let the title mislead you - this is not a tale of terror