The English novelist and poet Thomas Love Peacock was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley and they are believed to have influenced each other's work. Peacock wrote satirical novels, featuring characters at a table discussing and criticising the philosophical opinions of the day. In his most famous novel, ‘Nightmare Abbey’, romantic melancholy is satirised, with amusing lampoons of Shelley, Coleridge and Byron. For the first time in digital publishing, this eBook presents Peacock’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Peacock’s life and works

* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts

* All 7 novels, with individual contents tables

* Features rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing, including ‘Melincourt’

* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts

* Excellent formatting of the texts

* Rare unfinished novels available in no other collection

* Includes Peacock’s complete poetry – available in no other collection

* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry

* Easily locate the poems you want to read

* Includes Peacock’s plays, discovered for the first time in the twentieth century

* Rare non-fiction works

* A bonus biography – discover Peacock’s life

* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres

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CONTENTS:

The Novels

Headlong Hall

Melincourt

Nightmare Abbey

Maid Marian

The Misfortunes of Elphin

Crotchet Castle

Gryll Grange

Shorter Fiction and Unfinished Novels

Satyrane

Calidore

The Pilgrim of Provence

The Lord of the Hills

Julia Procula

A Story Opening at Chertsey

A Story of a Mansion among the Chiltern Hills

Boozabowt Abbey

Cotswald Chace

The Plays

The Dilettanti

The Circle of Loda

The Three Doctors

Gl’Ingannati, or The Deceived

The Poetry

The Collected Poetry of Thomas Love Peacock

List of Poems in Alphabetical Order

The Non-Fiction

The Four Ages of Poetry

Recollections of Childhood: The Abbey House

Memoirs of Shelley

The Last Day of Windsor Forest

Prospectus: Classical Education

The Biography

Thomas Love Peacock by Richard Garnett

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