Thomas Love Peacock

Author · 21 books

Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) was an English novelist and poet. For most of his life, Peacock worked for the East India Co. He was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley, who greatly inspired his writing. His best verse is interspersed in his novels, which are dominated by the conversations of their characters and satirize the intellectual currents of the day. His best-known work, Nightmare Abbey (1818), satirizes romantic melancholy and includes characters based on Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Lord Byron.

Books

Nightmare Abbey & Crotchet Castle (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Love Peacock

2026

The Greatest Gothic Classics of All Time

60+ Books in One Volume: Frankenstein, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Phantom Ship, The Birth Mark, The Headless Horseman…

2020

Deep, Dark & Unsettling

100+ Gothic Classics in One Edition: Novels, Tales and Poems: The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Tell-Tale Heart, Wuthering Heights, ... Rhine, The Headless Horseman & many more

2018