The Thomas Love Peacock Collection - Thomas Love Peacock

For Novellas From The Master Satirist nightmare Abbey (much Like Northanger Abbey Of The Same Period) Is A Satire On The Phenomenon That The 'gothic Novel' Had Become And Spoofs The Genre While Being A Part Of It. Headlong Hall Was His First Long Work Of Fiction, And Crotchet Castle In Both Books Peacock Follows The Same Framework Of Assembling A Group Of Eccentrics, Each With A Single Monomaniacal Obsession, And Derives Humour And Social Satire From Their Various Interactions And Conversations. The Misfortunes Of Elphin Is A Short Historical Romance Set In Sixth Century Wales, Which Recounts The Adventures Of The Bard Taliesin, The Princes Elphin Ap Gwythno And Seithenyn Ap Seithyn, And King Arthur.