Peacock's first novel is situated within its literary and historical contexts via a substantial introduction, generous notes, and annotated appendices.

“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

The place is quite a wilderness, said Squire Headlong: "for, during the latter part of my father's life, while I was finishing my education, he troubled himself