Thomas Love Peacock Books In Order

Novels

  1. Headlong Hall (1816)
  2. Melincourt (1817)
  3. Nightmare Abbey (1818)
  4. Maid Marian (1822)
  5. The Misfortunes of Elphin (1829)
  6. Crotchet Castle (1831)
  7. Gryll Grange (1860)

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Headlong Hall

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 Company. His own place in literature is pre eminently that of a satirist. That he has nevertheless been the favourite only of the few is owing partly to the highly intellectual quality of his work, but mainly to his lack of ordinary qualifications of the novelist, all pretension to which he entirely disclaims. He has no plot, little human interest, and no consistent delineation of character. His personages are mere puppets, or, at best, incarnations of abstract qualities such as grace or beauty. His comedy is Aristophanic. He suffers from that dramatist’s faults and, though not as daring in invention, shares many of his strengths. His works include Headlong Hall 1815, Nightmare Abbey 1818, Maid Marian 1822, The Misfortunes of Elphin 1829, Crotchet Castle 1831, and Gryll Grange 1861.

Melincourt

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Nightmare Abbey

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: CHAPTER VII. NEW visitor arrived at the Abbey, in the person of Mr Asterias, the ichthyologist. This gentleman had passed his life in seeking the living wonders of the deep through the four quarters of the world; he had a cabinet of stuffed and dried fishes, of shells, sea weeds, corals, and madrepores, that was the admiration and envy of the Royal Society. He had penetrated into the watery den of the Sepia Octopus, disturbed the conjugal happiness of that turtledove of the ocean, and come off victorious in a sanguiriary conflict. He had been becalmed in the tropical seas, and had watched, in eager expectation, though imhappily always in vain, to see the colossal pdypus rise from the water, and entwine its enormous arms round the masts and the rigging. He maintained the origin of all things from water, and insisted that the polypodes were the first of animated things, and tHaF,fr6rn their round bodies and many shooting arms, the Hindoos had taken their gods, the most ancient of deities. But the chief object of his ambition, the end and aim of his researches, was to discover a,triton and a mermaid, the existence of which he most potently and implicitly believed, and was prepared to demonstrate, at priori, a posteriori, d fortiori, synthetically and analytically, syllogistic ally and inductively, by arguments deduced both from acknowledged facts and plausible hypotheses. A report that a mermaid had been seen ‘ sleeking her soft alluring locks’ on the sea coast of Lincolnshire, had brought him in great haste from London, to pay a long promised and often postponed visit to his old acquaintance, Mr Glowry. Mr Asterias was accompanied by his son, to whom he had given the name of Aquarius flattering himself that he would, in the process of time, become a constellation among the st…

Maid Marian

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: CHAP. III. Inflamed wrath in glowing breast. Butler. I He knight and the friar, arriving at Ar lingford Castle, and leaving their horses in the care of lady Matilda’s groom, with whom the friar was in great favour, were ushered into a stately apartment, where they found the baron alone, flourishing an enormous carving knife over a brother baron of beef with as much vehemence of action as if he were cutting down an enemy. The baron was a gentleman of a fierce and choleric temperament : he was lineally descended from the redoubtable Fierabras of Normandy, who came over to England with the Conqueror, and who, in the battle of Hastings, killedwith his own hand four and twenty Saxon cavaliers all on a row. The very excess of the baron’s internal rage on the preceding day had smothered its external manifestation: he was so equally angry with both parties, that he knew not on which to vent his wrath. He was enraged with the earl for having brought himself into such a dilemma without his privity; and he was no less enraged with the king’s men for their very unseasonable intrusion. He could willingly have fallen upon both parties, but he must necessarily have begun with one : and he felt that on whichever side he should strike the first blow, his retainers would immediately join battle. He had therefore contented himself with forcing away his daughter from the scene of action. In the course of the evening he had received intelligence that the earl’s castle was in possession of a party of the king’s men,who had been detached by Sir Ralph Mont faucon to seize on it during the earl’s absence. The baron inferred from this that the earl’s case was desperate; and those who have had the opportunity of seeing a rich friend fall suddenly into poverty, may easily judge by their own feeling…

The Misfortunes of Elphin

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book without typos from the publisher. 1829. Not illustrated. Excerpt:…
210 CHAP. XV. THE CIRCLE OF THE BARDS. The three dignities of poetry: the union of the true and the wonderful; the union of the beautiful and the wise; and the union of art and nature. Triads Of Poetry. Amongst the Christmas amuseme*nts of Caer Lleon, a grand Bardic Congress was held in the Roman theatre, when the principal bards of Britain contended for the preeminence in the art of poetry,’ and in its appropriate moral and mystical knowledge. The meeting was held by daylight. King Arthur presided, being himself an irregular bard, and admitted, on this public occasion, to all the efficient honours of a Bard of Presidency. To preside in the Bardic Congress was long a peculiar privilege of the kings of Britain. It was exercised in the seventh century by King Cadwallader. King Arthur was assisted by twelve umpires, chosen by the bards, and confirmed by the king. The Court, of course, occupied the stations of honour, and every other part of the theatre was crowded with a candid and liberal audience. The bards sate in a circle on that part of the theatre corresponding with the portion which we call the stage. Silence was proclaimed by the herald; and, after a grand symphony, which was led off in fine style by the king’s harper, Geraint, Prince Cei came forward, and made a brief oration, to the effect that any of the profane, who should he irregular and tumultuous, would be forcibly removed from the theatre, to be dealt with at the discretion of the officer of the guard. Silence was then a second time proclaimed by the herald. Each bard, as he stood forward, was subjected to a number of interrogatories, metrical and mystical, which need not be here reported. Many bards sang many songs. Amongst them, Prince Llywarch sang GORWYNION Y GAUAV. THE BRILLIANCIES OF WINTER. L…

Crotchet Castle

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 Company. His own place in literature is pre eminently that of a satirist. That he has nevertheless been the favourite only of the few is owing partly to the highly intellectual quality of his work, but mainly to his lack of ordinary qualifications of the novelist, all pretension to which he entirely disclaims. He has no plot, little human interest, and no consistent delineation of character. His personages are mere puppets, or, at best, incarnations of abstract qualities such as grace or beauty. His comedy is Aristophanic. He suffers from that dramatist’s faults and, though not as daring in invention, shares many of his strengths. His works include Headlong Hall 1815, Nightmare Abbey 1818, Maid Marian 1822, The Misfortunes of Elphin 1829, Crotchet Castle 1831, and Gryll Grange 1861.

Gryll Grange

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 Company. His own place in literature is pre eminently that of a satirist. That he has nevertheless been the favourite only of the few is owing partly to the highly intellectual quality of his work, but mainly to his lack of ordinary qualifications of the novelist, all pretension to which he entirely disclaims. He has no plot, little human interest, and no consistent delineation of character. His personages are mere puppets, or, at best, incarnations of abstract qualities such as grace or beauty. His comedy is Aristophanic. He suffers from that dramatist’s faults and, though not as daring in invention, shares many of his strengths. His works include Headlong Hall 1815, Nightmare Abbey 1818, Maid Marian 1822, The Misfortunes of Elphin 1829, Crotchet Castle 1831, and Gryll Grange 1861.

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