THE THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK COLLECTION (4-BOOKS-IN-1)

For novellas from the master satirist!Nightmare Abbey (much like Northanger Abbey 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.Headlong Hall 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.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.