This tongue-in-cheek satire of English society and intellectual life is a classic of the genre. Written by Romantic poet and scholar Thomas Love Peacock, Headlong Hall skewers the pretensions and absurdities of the upper classes with wit and irreverence. With an introduction by Richard Garnett, this edition is a must-read for fans of 19th-century literature.

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