CHAPTER II
The Squire—­The Breakfast
Squire Headlong, in the meanwhile, was quadripartite
in his locality; that is to say, he was superintending
the operations in four scenes of action&mdash...
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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...
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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 surrounde...
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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...
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Headlong Hall
Thomas Love Peacock
Thomas Love Peacock