Thomas Love Peacock

Titles in Fiction category:

• Headlong Hall

  All these little publications appeared originally without prefaces. I left them to speak for themselves; and I thought I might very fitly preserve my own impersonality, having never intruded on the personality of others, nor taken any liberties but with public conduct and public opinions. ...

• Maid Marian

  Now come ye for peace here, or come ye for war? SCOTT.

• Nightmare Abbey

  Nightmare Abbey, a venerable family-mansion, in a highly picturesque state of semi-dilapidation, pleasantly situated on a strip of dry land between the sea and the fens, at the verge of the county of Lincoln, had the honour to be the seat of Christopher Glowry, Esquire. This gentleman was ...