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1	Headlong Hall and Nightmare Abbey more books like this by T Love Peacock add to wishlist These two novels contain characters who are either representative types, or thinly veiled caricatures of Peacock's contemporaries, who gather in country houses to eat, drink and discuss. These tales poke fun at contemporary attitudes and ideas, such as the Romantic literary movement. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.76! \| first editions
2	Nightmare Abbey more books like this by Thomas Love Peacock add to wishlist Mr. Glowry was a very consolate widower with one small child. That child, a son, was named Scythrop after a maternal ancestor who had hanged himself one rainy day in a fit of tedium. The coroner's jury eulogized him and Mr. Glowry held his memory in high honor, and made a punchbowl of his skull. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.34! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Nightmare Abbey/Crotchet Castle more books like this by Thomas Love Peacock, Raymond Wright (Editor) add to wishlist Two 19th-century novels satirize romanticism, political theories, and society through witty dialogue. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.50! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Thomas Love Peacock: Memoirs of Shelley and Other Essays and Reviews more books like this by Thomas Love Peacock, Howard Mills (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
5	Crotchet Castle more books like this by Thomas Love Peacock add to wishlist In this comedy of love and manners Mr. Crotchet finds it essential to furnishhimself with a coat of arms. see all copies from $5.00! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Gryll grange more books like this by Thomas Love Peacock add to wishlist Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) was an English satirist and author. Peacock was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley and they influenced each other's work. He wrote satirical novels, each with the same basic setting - characters at a table discussing and criticizing the philosophical opinions of the day. He worked for the British East India ... see all copies from $11.90! new only from $16.86! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Headlong Hall more books like this by Thomas Love Peacock add to wishlist Headlong Hall was an instant success upon its anonymous first appearance in 1816. Like most of Peacock's novels, it assembles a group of characters - Mr Cranium, Miss Poppyseed, Mr Treacle and others - who, while eating and drinking to abandon, discuss topics which were then of interest to Peacock and his circle of intellectual friends. Some of ... see all copies from $7.77! new only from $7.77! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Pleasures of Peacock: Comprising in Whole or in Part the Seven Novels of Thomas Love Peacock by Thomas Love Peacock add to wishlist see all copies from $5.00! first editions
9	The Letters of Thomas Love Peacock: Volume 1 1792-1827 more books like this by Nicholas A Joukovsky (Editor), Thomas Love Peacock add to wishlist Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) was a lifelong and assiduous letter-writer at a time when the letter was often virtually an art-form in itself. He had a wide circle of correspondents, and was a close friend of Shelley, whom he assisted over both personal and business affairs after Shelley's abandonment of his wife Harriet and departure to Italy. ... see all copies from $183.53! new only from $183.53! \| SVS
10	The Misfortunes of Elphin more books like this by Thomas Love Peacock add to wishlist Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 32 CHAP. III. THE OPPRESSION OF GWENHIDWY. Nid meddw y dyn a allo Cwnu ei hun a rhodio, Ac yved rhagor ddiawd: Nid yw hyny yn veddwdawd. Not drunk is he, who from the ... see all copies from $9.58! new only from $9.58! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	Maid Marian more books like this by Thomas Love Peacock add to wishlist Peacock's retelling of the legend of Robin Hood is as fresh today as it was when he penned it, nearly 200 years ago. Here are all the heroes and villains readers know and love, recast by a keen Victorian wit. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.84! \| first editions \| SVS
12	Melincourt; Or Sir Oran Hautton by Thomas Love Peacock add to wishlist This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark ... see all copies from $17.81! new only from $17.81! \| SVS
13	Headlong Hall and Gryll Grange more books like this by Thomas Love Peacock, Michael Slater (Editor), Michael Baron (Editor) add to wishlist This volume presents the first (1815) and last (1860) of Peacock's distinctive satirical novels. No other edition of either is currently available in paperback. see all copies from $3.00! new only from $185.12!
14 view cover	Maid Marian and Crotchet castle more books like this by Thomas Love Peacock add to wishlist MAID MARIAN AND CROTCHET CASTLE BY THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK ILLUSTRATED BY F. H. TOWNSEND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GEORGE SAINTSBURY ILontoon MACMILLAN AND CO. AND NEW YORK 1895 INTRODUCTION DURING many years 7 reading, with ever fresh enjoyment, of Peacocks novels, I had until quite the other day indeed until a time later than that at which I undertook ... see all copies from $2.85! new only from $22.97! \| first editions \| SVS
15	Headlng Hall Nitemare by Thomas Love Peacock add to wishlist see all copies from $23.25!
16 view cover	Thomas Love Peacock: Letters to Edward Hookham and Percy B. Shelley with Fragments of Unpublished Manuscripts more books like this by Thomas Love Peacock, Richard Garnett (Editor) add to wishlist 1910. English poet and satirist, friend and biographer of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Peacock is best remembered as one of the great satirists of the Romantic period. Early in his writing career he made use of the Arthurian legends, mainly for satire, amusement, and instruction. This volume contains letters that Peacock wrote either to intellectual ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $19.83! \| first editions \| SVS
17	The works of Thomas Love Peacock. by Thomas Love Peacock, H. F. B. Brett-Smith, Clifford Ernest Jones add to wishlist see all copies from $17.35! new only from $17.35! \| first editions
18	Works [First Collected Edition] by Thomas Love Cole Peacock, Henry; Nicolls, Edith; Houghton, Lord add to wishlist see all copies from $418.84! new only from $1,127.85!
19 view cover	Three Novels - Headlong Hall -Nightmare Abbey-Crotchet Castle more books like this by Thomas Love Love Peacock add to wishlist see all copies from $16.63! new only from $31.52! \| SVS
20 view cover	Nightmare Abbey by Peacock Thomas Love add to wishlist Thomas Love Peacock was an 18th century English author and satirist. Peacock's work was influenced by his friend Percy Bysshe Shelley. Peacock's novels used the same basic setting that of a group of people at a table discussing and criticizing philosophical opinions. Nightmare Abbey was written in 1818. This satire pokes fun at the Romantic ... see all copies from $8.94! new only from $8.94! \| first editions \| SVS
21	Peacock's Four ages of poetry ; Shelley's Defence of poetry ; Browning's Essay on Shelley more books like this by Thomas Love Peacock, H. F. B. Brett-Smith add to wishlist see all copies from $8.00! new only from $17.35!
22 view cover	Peacocks Four Ages of Poetry; Shelleys Defense of Poetry; Brownings Essay on Shelley (1921) more books like this by Thomas Love Peacock, Professor Percy Bysshe Shelley, H F B Brett-Smith (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $7.00! new only from $15.12!
23 view cover	Headlong hall. Nightmare Abbey. Maid Marian. Crotchet Castle. by Thomas Love Peacock add to wishlist see all copies from $8.49! new only from $24.82! \| SVS
24 view cover	Melincourt - Or, Sir Oran Haut-Ton by Thomas Love Peacock add to wishlist Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. see all copies from $18.00! new only from $31.97! \| first editions
25 view cover	Calidore and Miscellanea (1891) by Thomas Love Peacock, Richard Garnett (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $15.73! new only from $15.73! \| SVS

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