Peacock, Thomas Love, 1785-1866 / 2008-09-14 00:00:00

EBOOK HEADLONG HALL ***


Produced by Harrison Ainsworth


HEADLONG HALL
by
Thomas Love Peacock


Contents
Preface
I. The Mail
II. The Squire--The Breakfast
III. The Arrivals
IV. The Grounds
V. The Dinner
VI. The Evening
VII. The Walk
VIII. The Tower
IX. The Sexton
X. The Skull
XI. The Anniversary
XII. The Lecture
XIII. The Ball
XIV. The Proposals
XV. The Conclusion


All philosophers, who find
Some favourite system to their mind,
In every point to make it fit,
Will force all nature to submit.



P R E F A C E
to
"Headlong Hall" and the three novels
published along with it in 1837.
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All these little publications appeared originally without prefaces. I
left them to speak for themselves; and I thought I might very fitly
preserve my own impersonality, having never intruded on the
personality of others, nor taken any liberties but with public conduct
and public opinions.
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