Nightmare Abbey/Crotchet Castle - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Thomas Love Peacock, Raymond Wright (Introduction by)Series:Penguin ClassicsPublish date:1982-01-28Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Adult Hc/TrISBN-13:9780140430455ISBN-10:140430458UPC:9780140430455Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, LiterarySize:7.88 x 5.08 x 0.64 inchesWeight:0.6415Product ID:SC38GJQEZV
Nightmare Abbey/Crotchet Castle
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...
Series: Penguin Classics
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Adult Hc/TrISBN-13:9780140430455ISBN-10:140430458UPC:9780140430455Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, LiterarySize:7.88 x 5.08 x 0.64 inchesWeight:0.6415Product ID:SC38GJQEZV
Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) was born in Weymouth, the son of a London merchant. His schooling ended before he was thirteen and he became a clerk in a City office in London while beginning a close study of French, Italian and English literature. He also published several volumes of minor poetry through which he made the acquaintance of Shelley, who was a close friend from 1812 until his death...
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
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