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Headlong Hall is a novella by Thomas Love Peacock, his first long work of fiction, written in 1815 and published in 1816. [1] As in his later novel Crotchet Castle, Peacock assembles a group of eccentrics, each with a single monomaniacal obsession, and derives humor and social satire from their various interactions and conversations.
Headlong Hall –—*—– Chapter I The Mail. The ambiguous light of a December morning, peeping through the windows of the Holyhead mail, dispelled the soft visions of the four insides, who had slept, or seemed to sleep, through the first seventy miles of the road, with as much comfort as may be supposed consistent with the jolting of the vehicle, and an occasional admonition to remember ...
In Thomas Love Peacock. ” Headlong Hall (1816), the first of his seven novels, already sets the pattern of all of them: characters seated at table, eating and drinking, and embarking on learned and philosophical discussions in which many common opinions of the day are criticized. Read More.
But he becomes seized with a passion to form the acquaintance of philosophers and dilettanti. Narrated by Sir Michael Hordern. Starring Daniel Massey as Escot, Ronald Lacey as Foster, John Grillo as Jenkison, John Horsley as Cranium and William Simons as Headlong. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12803.
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2. Juli 2004 · Headlong Hall Credits: Produced by Harrison Ainsworth Language: English: LoC Class: PR: Language and Literatures: English literature: Subject: Satire, English Subject: Upper class -- England -- Fiction Category: Text: EBook-No. 12803: Release Date: Jul 2, 2004: Most Recently Updated: Dec 15, 2020: Copyright Status: Public domain in ...
22. Nov. 2018 · “Headlong Hall” is a novella by English novelist Thomas Love Peacock, first published in 1816. Peacock's first serious work of fiction, the plot concerns a group of eccentrics each suffering...
Headlong Hall, sets the pattern for his other novels of talk. It features a country-house, the titular Headlong Hall, populated by a diverse set of characters, each embodying a particular intellectual obsession and each tirelessly advocating his or her ideas in the frequent debates on which the novel turns – debates that are often learned ...
