Fiction · 1831
Crotchet Castle
Crotchet Castle, first published in 1831, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter I — The Villa
- Chapter II — The March of Mind
- Chapter III — The Roman Camp
- Chapter IV — The Party
- Chapter V — Characters
- Chapter VI — Theories
- Chapter VII — The Sleeping Venus
- Chapter VIII — Science and Charity
- Chapter IX — The Voyage
- Chapter X — The Voyage, Continued
- Chapter XI — Correspondence
- Chapter XII — The Mountain Inn
- Chapter XIII — The Lake—The Ruin
- Chapter XIV — The Dingle
- Chapter XV — The Farm
- Chapter XVI — The Newspaper
- Chapter XVII — The Invitation
- Chapter XVIII — Chainmail Hall
- Conclusion
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About the author
1785–1866 · Romantic
Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) was born in Weymouth, Dorset, and largely self-educated after leaving school at thirteen. He spent most of his working life as an administrator for the East India Company, rising to chief examiner in 1836 and retiring on a pension in 1856 — a career that ran alongside, rather than instead of, his writing. Introduced to Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1812, he became one of the poet's closest friends, and the two influenced each other's work considerably. Between 1815 and 1822 he published the run of satirical novels he is remembered for — Headlong Hall, Melincourt, Nightmare Abbey, and Maid Marian — each built around little more than a house party of talkers arguing the intellectual fashions of the day. He died in Surrey in 1866.
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