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Thomas Love Peacock

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born
January 01, 1785 in The United Kingdom

died
January 01, 1866

gender
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English novelist and poet. For most of his life Peacock worked for the East India Co. He was a close friend of Percy B. Shelley, who greatly inspired his writing. His best verse is interspersed in his novels, which are dominated by the conversations of their characters and satirize the intellectual currents of the day. His best-known work, Nightmare Abbey (1818), satirizes romantic melancholy and includes characters based on Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Lord Byron.


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Average rating: 3.57 · 333 ratings · 49 reviews · 71 distinct works
Nightmare Abbey
3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 165 ratings — published 1818 — 37 editions
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Nightmare Abbey; Crotchet C...
3.27 of 5 stars 3.27 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1982 — 2 editions
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Headlong Hall
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2003 — 25 editions
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Crotchet Castle
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1831 — 27 editions
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Maid Marian
3.35 of 5 stars 3.35 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1822 — 23 editions
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Gryll Grange
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1861 — 21 editions
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The Misfortunes of Elphin
3.22 of 5 stars 3.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1991 — 5 editions
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3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions
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Headlong Hall and Gryll Grange
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5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1987
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Headlong Hall and Nightmare...
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1895 — 20 editions
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Quotes by Thomas Love Peacock

“But still my fancy wanders free
Through that which might have been.”
― Thomas Love Peacock
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“I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then.”
― Thomas Love Peacock, Gryll Grange
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“Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas.”
― Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey
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