SCOTT, SIR WALTER
Antiquary
Guy Mannering
Heart of Midlothian
Ivanhoe
Kenilworth
Old Mortality
Peveril of the Peak
(SCOTT: _Continued in Vol. VIII_.)

Complete Index of THE WORLD'S GREATEST BOOKS will be found at the end of
Volume XX

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THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK


Headlong Hall


The novels of Thomas Love Peacock still find admirers among
cultured readers, but his extravagant satire and a certain
bookish awkwardness will never appeal to the great
novel-reading public. The son of a London glass merchant,
Peacock was born at Weymouth on October 18, 1785. Early in
life he was engaged in some mercantile occupation, which,
however, he did not follow up for long. Then came a period of