Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866)
Auteur de Nightmare Abbey
A propos de l'auteur
Thomas Love Peacock was born on October 18, 1785. He was largely self-educated and worked most of his life for the East India Company. During this time, he mastered Greek, Latin, Italian, French, and Welsh. He became chief examiner in 1836 and retired on a pension in 1856. He wrote seven novels afficher plus during his lifetime including Headlong Hall, Melincourt, Nightmare Abbey, Crotchet Castle, and Gryll Grange. He died on January 23, 1866 at the age of 81 from injuries sustained in a fire in which he had attempted to save his library. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Thomas Love Peacock
The Pleasures of Peacock; Comprising in Whole or in Part the Seven Novels of T.L. Peacock (1947) 11 exemplaires
Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Love Peacock (Illustrated) (Delphi Series Nine Book 19) (2018) 11 exemplaires
The misfortunes of Elphin and Rhododaphne 9 exemplaires
Peacock's Four ages of poetry ; Shelley's Defence of poetry ; Browning's Essay on Shelley (2018) 6 exemplaires
The Complete Novels Volume I 6 exemplaires
The Novels of Thomas Love Peacock: Volume Two 4 exemplaires
The Works of Thomas Love Peacock 1: Headlong Hall, Melincourt, Nightmare Abbey, Maid Marian 3 exemplaires
Seamen Three 2 exemplaires
The works of Thomas Love Peacock, including his novels, poems, fugitive pieces, criticisms, etc 2 exemplaires
Peacock's Four Ages Of Poetry; Shelley's Defense Of Poetry; Browning's Essay On Shelley (1921) (2010) 1 exemplaire
Sir Hornbook, Or, Childe Launcelot's Expedition: A Grammatico-allegoriccal Ballad... (2012) 1 exemplaire
The Works Of Thomas Love Peacock V1: Including His Novels, Poems, Fugitive Pieces, Criticisms, Etc. (1875) (2010) 1 exemplaire
The Works of Thomas Love Peacock Volume I 1 exemplaire
The Works of Thomas Love Peacock Volume II 1 exemplaire
The Works of Thomas Love Peacock Volume III 1 exemplaire
Newark Abbey 1 exemplaire
Novels of Thomas Love Peacock. Headlong Hall, Nightmare Abbey, The misfortunes of Elphin [and] Crotchet Castle ... 1 exemplaire
Calidore & miscellanea 1 exemplaire
Nightmare Abbey, Headlong Hall, & Crotchet Castle: A Collection of Three Gothic Satires 1 exemplaire
Collected Stories 1 exemplaire
Crochet Castle, Gryll Grange, Nightmare Abbey 1 exemplaire
The Collected Works of Thomas Love Peacock: The Complete Works PergamonMedia (Highlights of World Literature) (2015) 1 exemplaire
Headlong Hall and Other Tales 1 exemplaire
Thomas Love Peacock letters to Edward Hookham and Percy B. Shelley, with fragments of unpublished mss 1 exemplaire
The Last Day of Windsor Forest 1 exemplaire
The genius of the Thames; a lyrical poem 1 exemplaire
Songs from the novels of Thomas Love Peacock 1 exemplaire
Collected Stories of Thomas Love Peacock (HTML only) 1 exemplaire
The War Song of Dinas Vawr {poem} 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost (2004) — Contributeur — 1,048 exemplaires
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 2 (1979) — Contributeur — 250 exemplaires
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1785-10-18
- Date de décès
- 1866-01-23
- Lieu de sépulture
- Shepperton Cemetery, Spelthorne, Surrey, England, UK
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Weymouth, Dorset, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Lower Halliford, Shepperton, Middlesex, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Weymouth, Dorset, England, UK
Chertsey, Surrey, England, UK
HMS Venerable
Maentwrog, Merionethshire, Wales, UK
Wraysbury, Berkshire, England, UK
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (tout afficher 9)
Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Blackfriars, London, England, UK
Lower Halliford, Middlesex, England, UK - Professions
- novelist
poet
satirist
playwright
personal secretary
clerk (tout afficher 10)
examiner
East India Company official
parliamentary lobbyist
literary critic - Organisations
- British East India Company
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Folio Society (1)
A Novel Cure (1)
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 67
- Aussi par
- 8
- Membres
- 1,598
- Popularité
- #16,137
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 38
- ISBN
- 252
- Langues
- 9
- Favoris
- 10
> Dans son oeuvre la plus connue, L'Abbaye de Cauchemar (Nightmare Abbey, 1818), il raille la mélancolie romantique en campant les personnages de Scythrop (inspiré par Shelley), Mr. Flosky (par Coleridge) et Mr. Cypress (par Byron). Un beau moment de belle écriture et d'histoires touchantes.
—Danieljean (Babelio)… (plus d'informations)