The complete online text of Headlong Hall 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...