Nightmare Abbey
Sinopsis
Nightmare Abbey is a novella by Thomas Love Peacock, first published in 1818, widely considered to be Peacocks 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 Mozart – Nightmare Abbey is, at heart, a satire, as Peacock makes clear in the preface to a later edition, in which he describes the characters – allusions to his friends – as status-quo-ites, morbid visionaries, romantic enthusiasts and lovers of good dinners.
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Editorial: Renard Press
ISBN: 9781913724764
Idioma: Inglés
Fecha de lanzamiento: 29/10/2021
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