# Nightmare Abbey — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock.

- [Epigraph](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/chapters/epigraph.md): The epigraph presents three quotations that set the thematic tone for the novel: Samuel Butler's verse on self-inflicted melancholy and visionary torment, a dialogue from Ben Jonson's play linking melancholy to wit and p
- [Nightmare Abbey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/chapters/nightmare-abbey.md): The chapter introduces the melancholy Mr. Glowry and his estate, Nightmare Abbey, a gloomy mansion by the fens. His son Scythrop, after a disappointing love affair, retreats to his tower to write a treatise on reforming 
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/chapters/i.md): The chapter introduces Nightmare Abbey, the melancholic home of Mr. Glowry, a widower who lost his wife after a loveless marriage. His son Scythrop is sent to school and university, falls in love with Miss Emily Girouett
- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/chapters/ii.md): After his disappointment in love, Scythrop Glowry is left alone at Nightmare Abbey while his father attends to a lawsuit. He retreats into romantic and transcendental philosophy, devising plans to reform the world throug
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/chapters/iii.md): Mr. Glowry returns from London having lost his lawsuit, and finds Scythrop in a tragically sympathetic mood. Their mutual lamentations over the degenerate age are interrupted by the arrival of friends, including the Hono

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- [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/chapters/iv.md)
- [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/chapters/v.md)
- [Chapter VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/chapters/vi.md)
- [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/chapters/vii.md)
- [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/chapters/viii.md)
- [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/chapters/ix.md)
- [Chapter X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/chapters/x.md)
- [XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/chapters/xi.md)
- [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/chapters/xii.md)
- [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/chapters/xiii.md)
- [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/chapters/xiv.md)
- [XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/chapters/xv.md)
- [Endnotes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/chapters/endnotes.md)

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