TY  - BOOK
AU  - Peacock,Thomas Love
TI  - Headlong Hall
AV  - PR 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Satire, English
KW  - Upper class -- England -- Fiction
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headlong_Hall; Release date is 2004-07-02; Produced by Harrison Ainsworth; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "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.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12803
ER  -