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Nightmare Abbey/Crotchet Castle
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 gay 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 r...more
Paperback, 282 pages
Published
January 28th 1982
by Penguin Books
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Read it in school, don't remember most of this satire, but it's actually funny in parts, somewhat Woody Allen-ish, if that helps. Or to quote Allen in Love and Death: "...the part of the doctor was played with gusto and verve and the girl had a delightful cameo role. A puckish satire of contemporary mores. A droll spoof aimed more at the heart than the head.
Soldier: As for me I'm planning to spend the next three days in a brothel. Care to come with me?
Boris: No, I went to a ...more
Soldier: As for me I'm planning to spend the next three days in a brothel. Care to come with me?
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These two satirical novellas provide a rewarding glimpse into the intellectual life and social preoccupations of England's lesser gentry in the early 19th century. The pick of the litter is certainly Nightmare Abbey, a sort of Georgian Addams Family, a comprehensive parody of overripe Romanticism and the Gothic worldview. Crotchet Castle drags on a bit and treads some of the same ground again.
i only bought this because i saw a pretty redhead chick carrying it around the university courtyard trying to find a secluded place to read it. secluded from my roving eyes!
Re-reading after, probably, thirty years.
OK, re-read Nightmare Abbey only. Guess I'm not gonna read the other one again now.
OK, re-read Nightmare Abbey only. Guess I'm not gonna read the other one again now.
Dry but humorful.
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English novelist and poet. For most of his life Peacock worked for the East India Co. He was a close friend of Percy B. Shelley, who greatly inspired his writing. His best verse is interspersed in his novels, which are dominated by the conversations of their characters and satirize the intellectual currents of the day. His best-known work, Nightmare Abbey (1818), satirizes romantic melancholy and ...more
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