Headlong Hall, by Thomas Love Peacock


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Headlong Hall is the first novel of Thomas Love Peacock, published in 1815 (dated 1816).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. The setting is the country estate of Squire Harry Headlong Ap-Rhaiader, Esq. in Wales.