Nightmare Abbey: The misfortunes of Elphin. Crotchet Castle (Rinehart editions, 148)

Literature & Fiction

Peacock, Thomas Love

Literary

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

Thomas Love Peacock is literature’s perfect individualist. He has points in common with Aristophanes, Plato, Rabelais, Voltaire, and even Aldous Huxley, but resembles none of them; we can talk of the satirical novel of ideas, but his satire is too cheery and good-natured, his novel too rambling, and his ideas too jovially destructive for the label to stick. A romantic in his youth and a friend of Shelley, he happily made hay of the romantic movement in Nightmare Abbey, clamping Coleridge, Byron, and Shelley himself in a kind of painless pillory. And in Crotchet Castle he did no less for the political economists, pitting his gifts of exaggeration and ridicule against scientific progress and March of Mind. Yet the romantic in him never died: the long, witty, and indecisive talk of his characters is set in wild, natural scenery which Peacock describes with true feeling.

Nightmare Abbey & Crotchet Castle (Penguin English Library El 45)

Humor & Satire

Penguin Publishing Group

This volume presents the first (1815) and last (1860) of Peacock's distinctive satirical novels. No other edition of either is currently available in paperback.

Headlong Hall and Gryll Grange (The ^AWorld's Classics)

Oxford University Press

240p dark purple paperback, well preserved copy

Memoirs of Shelley and Other Essays and Reviews

Essays & Correspondence

Hart-Davis

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 and Mr. Glowry held his memory in high honor, and made a punchbowl of his skull.

Nightmare Abbey

W.W.Norton&Company

Headlong Hall and Nightmare Abbey

Adamant Media Corporation

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Thomas Love Peacock: Letters to Edward Hookham and Percy B. Shelley with Fragments of Unpublished Manuscripts

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Kessinger Publishing

Melincourt; Or Sir Oran Hautton

World Literature

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Headlong Hall; Nightmare Abbey; Maid Marian; Crotchet Castle (1837)

Maid Marian

Genre Fiction

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