Peacock, Thomas Love,  1785-1866 <br/><br/>
Headlong Hall 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headlong_Hall  Release date is 2004-07-02 
<br/><br/>Produced by Harrison Ainsworth  Produced by Harrison Ainsworth 
<br/><br/> "Headlong Hall" by Thomas Love Peacock is a novella written in 1815 and published in 1816. At a Welsh country estate, Squire Headlong hosts a Christmas gathering of eccentric philosophers and intellectuals, each obsessed with a single idea. A perfectibilian, a deteriorationist, and a statu-quoite clash in spirited debates, joined by a phrenologist, a musician, and a popular novelist. Through dinners and festivities, Peacock crafts a humorous social satire from their conversations and curious interactions, blending wit with commentary on early nineteenth-century intellectual culture. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Satire, English Upper class -- England -- Fiction 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR