{"product_id":"nightmare-abbey-crotchet-castle-penguin-classics-9780140430455","title":"Nightmare Abbey  Crotchet Castle Penguin Classics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThomas Love Peacock is literature’s perfect individualist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA romantic in his youth and a friend of Shelley, he happily made hay of the romantic movement in \u003ci\u003eNightmare Abbey\u003c\/i\u003e, clamping Coleridge, Byron, and Shelley himself in a kind of painless pillory. And in \u003ci\u003eCrotchet Castle\u003c\/i\u003e 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. ","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51862437364055,"sku":"9780140430455","price":15.57,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780140430455.jpg?v=1759917802","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/nightmare-abbey-crotchet-castle-penguin-classics-9780140430455","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}