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Headlong Hall

by Thomas Love Peacock

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First published
1816
Pages
115
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Read by Ruth Golding, TriciaG, Martin Geeson and others · 3 h 24 min · 16 parts

  1. Preface

    5:40

  2. Chapter 1

    9:15

  3. Chapter 2

    11:37

  4. Chapter 3

    8:07

  5. Chapter 4

    11:06

  6. Chapter 5

    27:22

  7. Chapter 6

    14:27

  8. Chapter 7

    16:51

  9. Chapter 8

    9:25

  10. Chapter 9

    12:06

  11. Chapter 10

    7:43

  12. Chapter 11

    8:24

  13. Chapter 12

    9:48

  14. Chapter 13

    27:55

  15. Chapter 14

    18:01

  16. Chapter 15

    6:56

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Peacock's first book sets the template for nearly everything he wrote after it. Squire Headlong invites a party of talkers to his Welsh estate for the Christmas season, and their arguments carry the story. An optimist insists the world is steadily improving, a gloomy pessimist counters that everything is in decline, and a third man calmly maintains that things stay much as they always were, while a hungry clergyman keeps steering the conversation back to dinner. Around this debate Peacock arranges a small courtship, a meddling landscape gardener, and a good deal of eating and drinking. Written in 1815 and published the following year, it is a brisk, funny send-up of Romantic-era intellectual posturing.

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Thomas Love Peacock

Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) was an English novelist and poet, and a close friend of Percy Shelley. Largely self-taught, he spent his career at the East India Company while writing satirical conversation novels that skewered the intellectual fashions of his day.

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Book facts

First published
1816
Reading time
About 2 hours
Pages
115
Language
English
Genre
Satire
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Ruth Golding, TriciaG, Martin Geeson and others