Headlong Hall

“Headlong Hall” is a novella by English novelist Thomas Love Peacock, first published in 1816. Peacock''s first serious work of fiction, the plot concerns a group of eccentrics each suffering from monomania and their humorous and satirical conversations while at the country estate of Squire Harry Headlong Ap-Rhaiader, Esq., in Wales, England. A witty and clever tale, “Headlong Hall” it constitutes...