Essential Novelists - Thomas Love Peacock: criticism of common sense

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· Essential Novelists Book 142 · Tacet Books
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Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Thomas Love Peacock wich are Headlong Hall and Nightmare Abbey. Thomas Love Peacock satirized the intellectual tendencies of his day in novels in which conversation predominates over character or plot. His best verse is interspersed in his novels. Novels selected for this book: - Headlong Hall. - Nightmare Abbey.This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

About the author

Thomas Love Peacock (18 October 1785 23 January 1866) was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. He was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley and they influenced each other's work. Peacock wrote satirical novels, each with the same basic setting: characters at a table discussing and criticising the philosophical opinions of the day.

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