Nightmare Abbey; Crotchet Castle
Author: Thomas Love Peacock
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….Read More
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