Nightmare Abbey
Author | : | |
Rating | : | 4.61 (925 Votes) |
Asin | : | B071HQ9399 |
Format Type | : | |
Number of Pages | : | 453 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2014-08-02 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Instead, with 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.. Don't let the title mislead you - this is not a tale of terror. Flosky perhaps representing a caricature of Coleridge, Scythrop Glowry as Shelley, and Mr
"novella from Amazon because a clickbait "best of" list recommended it as a great horror novel of the 19th" according to 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 pers. "A Truly Great Novel" according to Peter Oakley. 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. 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 m