The complete online text of Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock.

The work of the English novelist and satirist Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) is distinguished by its incisive penetration of the intellectual tendencies of his time. He ranks high as a comic novelist of ideas. Thomas Love Peacock, the son of a London me...

Thomas Love Peacock was an accomplished poet, essayist, opera critic, and satiric novelist. During his lifetime his works received the approbation of other writers (some of whom were Peacock's friends and the targets of his satire), literary critics (man...

In part 1 of his "Memoirs of Percy Bysshe Shelley" (Fraser's Magazine , June 1858), Thomas Love Peacock recalled a familiar scene from nearly half a century before: At Bracknell, Shelley was surrounded by a numerous society, all in a great measure of his...

INTERNAL DOCUMENTS drawn up by Abbey National have identified a takeover by Lloyds TSB as the nightmare scenario of all the possible merger combinations in the industry. The documents predict massive branch closures, huge job losses and a decimation of middle and senior...

July was a month for some exclusive London venues on the insurance function circuit. Claridge's, the Eye, Oxo Tower, and then on the ecclesiastical side the Jerusalem Chamber within the Westminster Abbey complex. This last setting was on the occasion of the presentation of...