Headlong Hall / Nightmare Abbey Author:Thomas Love Peacock Thomas Love Peacock is a name known to readers all over the world, yet his work - unjustly - is somewhat neglected. He was largely self-educated, but his reading was prodigious and his appointment as Chief Examiner of Indian Correspondence in the East India Company enabled him to live tranquilly in the sylvan setting of the Chertsey of a century... more » ago. Peacock's novels place him firmly among the "immortals" of English letters; his brilliant satirical and conversational gifts were at their keenest when engaged in high-spirited pastiche of the "Romantic" movement.« less