| Front | Headlong Hall |
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| Back | A satire Thomas Love Peacocke 1816 The disputatious group of guests invited to spend Christmas at squire Headlong's Welsh country house represents a broad spectrum of Contemporary opinions on matters Cultural philosophical and Scientific Headlong Hall is a novella by Thomas Love Peacock, his first long work of fiction, written in 1815 and published in 1816.[1] As in his later novel Crotchet Castle, Peacock assembles a group of eccentrics, each with a single monomaniacal obsession, and derives humor and social satire from their various interactions and conversations. The setting is the country estate of Squire Harry Headlong Ap-Rhaiader, Esq., in Wales. |
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