The Thomas Love Peacock Collection

<p><b>For novellas from the master satirist!</b><br> <i>Nightmare Abbey</i> (much like <i>Northanger Abbey</i> of the same period) is a satire on the phenomenon that the 'Gothic Novel' had become and spoofs the genre while being a part of it.<br> <i>Headlong Hall</i> was his first long work of fiction, and Crotchet Castle - in both books Peacock follows the same framework of assembling a group of eccentrics, each with a single monomaniacal obsession, and derives humour and social satire from their various interactions and conversations.<br> The Misfortunes of Elphin is a short historical romance set in sixth century Wales, which recounts the adventures of the bard Taliesin, the princes Elphin ap Gwythno and Seithenyn ap Seithyn, and King Arthur.</p>