# Headlong Hall

By Thomas Love Peacock.

"Headlong Hall" by Thomas Love Peacock is a novella written in 1815 and published in 1816. At a Welsh country estate, Squire Headlong hosts a Christmas gathering of eccentric philosophers and intellectuals, each obsessed with a single idea. A perfectibilian, a deteriorationist, and a statu-quoite clash in spirited debates, joined by a phrenologist, a musician, and a popular novelist. Through dinners and festivities, Peacock crafts a humorous social satire from their conversations and curious interactions, blending wit with commentary on early nineteenth-century intellectual culture. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Subjects: Satire, English; Upper class -- England -- Fiction

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- [Headlong Hall (dramatic reading)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/5954) by Thomas Love Peacock (3 h 25 min, English)

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