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Thomas Love Peacock was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. In «Crotchet Castle» the author assembles a group of eccentrics, each with a single monomaniacal obsession, and derives humour and social satire from their various interactions and conversations.
Top 100 Classic Books, Т8 2018, ISBN: 978-5-517-00228-0
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Thomas Love Peacock was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. «The Misfortunes of Elphin» is a novella, which is set in a somewhat historically fanciful Arthurian Britain which incorporates many Welsh legends, but avoids all supernatural and mystical elements.
Top 100 Classic Books, Т8 2018, ISBN: 978-5-517-00227-3
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Thomas Love Peacock was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. Peacocks retelling of the legend of Robin Hood is as fresh today as it was when he penned it, nearly two hundred years ago. Here are all the heroes and villains we know and love, recast by a keen Victorian wit Robin Hood and Maid Marian; Friar Tuck, Little John, and Richard the Lionhearted; Prince John and the Sheriff of Nottingham.
Top 100 Classic Books, Т8 2018, ISBN: 978-5-517-00226-6
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Thomas Love Peacock was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. «Headlong Hall» like most of Peacocks novels, assembles a group of characters who discuss topics that were then of interest to Peacock and his circle of intellectual friends. Peacock uses the work to parody contemporary thinking in a variety of disparate areas, including utilitarianism, vegetarianism, aesthetics, music, poetry, art criticism, and so on.
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Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. «Headlong Hall» like most of Peacocks 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. Peacock uses the work to parody contemporary thinking in a variety of disparate areas, including utilitarianism, vegetarianism, aesthetics, music, poetry, art criticism, and so on. In the meantime there is dancing and drinking and falling in love.
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Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. «The Misfortunes of Elphin» is a awesome novella. It is set in a somewhat historically fanciful Arthurian Britain which incorporates many Welsh legends, but avoids all supernatural and mystical elements. Seithenyn appears as a major character.
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Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. Peacocks retelling of the legend of Robin Hood is as fresh today as it was when he penned it, nearly two hundred years ago. Here are all the heroes and villains we know and love, recast by a keen Victorian wit Robin Hood and Maid Marian; Friar Tuck, Little John, and Richard the Lionhearted; Prince John and the Sheriff of Nottingham. The heroes are heroic and just a little self-serving, though generous the villains are villainous. The tale is told as keenly as it can be.
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Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. The final novel of Thomas Love Peacock followed the others after a silence of 30 years, its typical Peacockian format intact an idyllic, country house setting, a genial host, many opinionated guests, and a romantic love interest. Like all of Peacocks novels, Gryll Grange dissects the philosophy, manners, and culture of his day through a sparkling cocktail of dialogue and poetry.
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Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. In «Crotchet Castle» he did no less for the political economists, pitting his gifts of exaggeration and ridicule against scientific progress and March of Mind.
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Nightmare Abbey was written in 1818 by Thomas Love Peacock. It is a gothic satire, which delights in parodying the current fashions of the time, such as the Romantic Movement in Literature and Transcendental Philosophy. Although the modern reader can enjoy these witty descriptions even today, it is debatable whether all the allusions can be appreciated without an in-depth study of the work, as Peacock referred to many friends of the family and historical characters.