Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock ~ Full Audiobook [comedy]

Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock audiobook.

Genre: comedy

Deep in the fens of the British coast sits the gloomy mansion that goes by the name Nightmare Abbey. It is inhabited by persons of very low opinion of the human race, and in fact they pride themselves in the depths of their detestation. Others of its denizens believe the ultimate exercise and product of the human mind ought to be chaos.

Now let the young master of the house get snared by the wiles of a beautiful young lady. And for good measure, toss in another beautiful young lady. Now Scythrop (named in honor of an ancestor who became bored with life and hanged himself) is about to find that two such make too much of a good thing!

Peacock wrote Nightmare Abbey as a satire, and he has folded in allusions to or quotations from literally dozens of other works. He makes use of many long, impressive-sounding words (some of which he very possibly made up!). Ignore these and his occasional Latin phrase, treat the rest as a farce, and you're on track for a fun listen!

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:17:39) Chapter 02

(00:25:16) Chapter 03

(00:35:55) Chapter 04

(00:46:43) Chapter 05

(00:59:42) Chapter 06

(01:17:35) Chapter 07

(01:39:27) Chapter 08

(01:51:31) Chapter 09

(02:02:33) Chapter 10

(02:18:45) Chapter 11

(02:38:28) Chapter 12

(02:51:11) Chapter 13

(03:07:37) Chapter 14

(03:15:45) Chapter 15

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