{"product_id":"nightmare-abbeycrotchet-castle-9780140430455","title":"Nightmare Abbey\/Crotchet Castle","description":"Thomas Love Peacock is literature's perfect individualist. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Adult Hc\/Tr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/28\/1982\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780140430455\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.75h x 5.06w x 0.61d","brand":"Thomas Love Peacock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43623993704629,"sku":"9780140430455","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_e3576750-4124-4a80-9985-59c87df6e683.jpg?v=1707798060","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/nightmare-abbeycrotchet-castle-9780140430455","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}