Headlong Hall is Peacock’s first comic experiment: a country-house gathering where every guest seems to have a theory. The joke is not that ideas are foolish, but that clever people so often turn partial truths into complete systems.
Read More… P-Wave Press has introduced permanent Publisher Direct pricing for print books in the UK and USA, alongside a redesigned 'Where to Buy' section across the catalogue. We're also delighted to announce that the
No Way Home novellas and
Sunlight are once again available as ebooks from major online retailers.
Read More…Volume I of Charlotte Lennox's
The Female Quixote is now available in a restored two-volume edition from P-Wave Classics. Discover one of the eighteenth century's most original and thought-provoking heroines.
Read More…Arabella's cure appears to restore order and common sense. Yet
The Female Quixote leaves open a more troubling question: what is lost when imagination yields to reality?
Read More…Arabella's clothes in
The Female Quixote are beautiful, expensive, and entirely wrong. That is precisely the point.
Read More…Arabella does not merely read romances, she lives inside them. Charlotte Lennox's novel explores how stories shape identity, perception, and our understanding of reality itself.
Read More…Why is
Hermsprong being published in three volumes? The answer reveals how novels were originally written, published and read in the late eighteenth century.
Read More…Charlotte Lennox’s
The Female Quixote is often described as a female version of
Don Quixote. But Arabella’s romance-shaped imagination reveals something far stranger — and more unsettling — about the world around her.
Read More…Volume I of Robert Bage’s
Hermsprong is published today by P-Wave Classics. A radical satire of class, gender and social hypocrisy, restored to its original three-volume form.
Read More…What did education prepare women for in the 1790s: thought, work or marriage? In
Hermsprong, Robert Bage exposes the assumptions that kept women praised in theory but constrained in practice.
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