Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Love Peacock

Thomas Love Peacock

Summary

The English novelist and poet Thomas Love Peacock was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley and they are believed to have influenced each other's work. Peacock wrote satirical novels, featuring characters at a table discussing and criticising the philosophical opinions of the day. In his most famous novel, ‘Nightmare Abbey’, romantic melancholy is satirised, with amusing lampoons of Shelley, Coleridge and Byron. For the first time in digital publishing, this eBook presents Peacock’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)
 
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Peacock’s life and works* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts* All 7 novels, with individual contents tables* Features rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing, including ‘Melincourt’* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts* Excellent formatting of the texts* Rare unfinished novels available in no other collection* Includes Peacock’s complete poetry – available in no other collection* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry * Easily locate the poems you want to read* Includes Peacock’s plays, discovered for the first time in the twentieth century* Rare non-fiction works* A bonus biography – discover Peacock’s life* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
 
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CONTENTS:
 
The NovelsHeadlong HallMelincourtNightmare AbbeyMaid MarianThe Misfortunes of ElphinCrotchet CastleGryll Grange
 
Shorter Fiction and Unfinished NovelsSatyraneCalidoreThe Pilgrim of ProvenceThe Lord of the HillsJulia ProculaA Story Opening at ChertseyA Story of a Mansion among the Chiltern HillsBoozabowt AbbeyCotswald Chace
 
The PlaysThe DilettantiThe Circle of LodaThe Three DoctorsGl’Ingannati, or The Deceived
 
The PoetryThe Collected Poetry of Thomas Love PeacockList of Poems in Alphabetical Order
 
The Non-FictionThe Four Ages of PoetryRecollections of Childhood: The Abbey HouseMemoirs of ShelleyThe Last Day of Windsor ForestProspectus: Classical Education
 
The BiographyThomas Love Peacock by Richard Garnett
 
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Available since: 09/18/2018.

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