Word: crotchets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of Peacock's novels is a country house party where violently opinionated cranks, in an atmosphere of high spirits, alternate between chasing pretty girls and discussing everything, contradicting each other, and settling nothing-except that they make perfect butts for Peacock's gay, sometimes lethal, satire. Crotchet Castle and Nightmare Abbey, a goodnatured, witty caricature of Shelley as Scythrop dowry, the baffled lover, are probably the best of Peacock and least likely to bog the reader in temporary verbal swamps...