Nightmare Abbey

Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. He was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley and they influenced each other's work. Peacock wrote satirical novels and his place in literature is pre-eminently that of a satirist. His comedy combines the mock-Gothic with the Aristophanic, discussing and criticizing the philosophical opinions of ...