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Crotchet Castle & Gryll Grange
Paperback
Series: Thomas Love Peacock: The P-Wave Classics Editions, Book 3
Classic FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher Price: $24.99
ISBN13: 9781916937154
Publisher: P-Wave Classics
Published: Oct 23 2025
Pages: 558
Weight: 0.92
Height: 1.13 Width: 4.37 Depth: 7.00
Language: English
Two sparkling social satires on progress, tradition, and the absurdities of intellectual fashion.
A master of comic wit and biting satire, Thomas Love Peacock turns his sharp eye to the ideological battles of 19th-century Britain in Crotchet Castle and Gryll Grange, his final two novels. Blending humour, erudition, and playful irreverence, these brilliant comedies explore the follies of intellectual fashion, the tension between modernity and tradition, and the eternal question of what makes a life truly worth living.
In Crotchet Castle (1831), an eccentric country house becomes the stage for an animated clash of ideas, as economists, reformers, medievalists, and scientists debate the future of society. With a cast of unforgettable characters-including pompous political theorists, utopian dreamers, and champions of outdated aristocratic values-Peacock offers a hilarious yet insightful critique of grandiose ideologies and social dogma.
In Gryll Grange (1860), Peacock's final novel, the satire is softened with a charming reflection on love, leisure, and the simple pleasures of life. The cultured and independent-minded Mr. Falconer, weary of modernity's relentless pace, chooses a life of quiet retreat-until romance and a new generation of reformers challenge his convictions. With its elegant prose, sparkling dialogues, and a subtle undercurrent of nostalgia, Gryll Grange is Peacock's most philosophical and reflective work.
Perfect for fans of Jane Austen's comedy of manners, Oscar Wilde's razor-sharp wit, and the intellectual playfulness of Laurence Sterne, Crotchet Castle & Gryll Grange showcases Peacock at his most incisive, entertaining, and relevant.
This P-Wave Classics edition brings these two novels together in a single volume, making them available to a new generation of readers who delight in satire, conversation, and the pleasures of the mind.
Edited with notes and an introduction by L.A. Davenport.
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