Nightmare Abbey does not mock Romantic poetry from a distance: Peacock knew the world he was satirising. This post looks at Shelley, Byron, Coleridge and the early nineteenth-century making of literary celebrity.
Read More… Nightmare Abbey turns Gothic gloom and Romantic melancholy into comedy. Peacock’s target is not sorrow itself, but the moment despair becomes style, system and self-display.
Read More… 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.
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