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100 1 _aPeacock, Thomas Love,
_d1785-1866
245 1 0 _aHeadlong Hall
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2004
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headlong_Hall
500 _aRelease date is 2004-07-02
508 _aProduced by Harrison Ainsworth
520 _a"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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aSatire, English
653 _aUpper class -- England -- Fiction
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12803
999 _c54197
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