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…
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 Издательские технологии, 2018 год
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. Top100 Classic Books м Издательские технологии, 2018 год
Thomas Love Peacock was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. «Headlong Hall» like most of Peacock’s 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…
Thomas Love Peacock was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. Peacock’s 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…
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. Original RUGRAM, 2018…
Thomas Love Peacock (1785—1866) was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. «Headlong Hall» 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…
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…
