{"product_id":"9780140430455","title":"Nightmare Abbey and Crotchet Castle","description":"\u003cp\u003eThomas Love Peacock is literature’s perfect individualist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47015954940144,"sku":"9780140430455","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780140430455_p0.jpg?v=1763655145","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780140430455","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}