Headlong Hall and Nightmare Abbey Out Now


Headlong Hall and Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock from P-Wave Classics

Today marks a special milestone for P-Wave Press as we celebrate the publication of Headlong Hall and Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock—the very first title in our new P-Wave Classics imprint.

Now available in paperback and ebook at all major retailers, this beautifully presented edition brings together two of the sharpest, funniest and most intelligent satires of the early 19th century.

In Headlong Hall (1815), an eccentric group of guests gather at a Welsh country house to debate society’s grandest ideas—progress, nature and human purpose—each firmly wedded to their own exaggerated philosophy. The result is a lively, comic collision of opinion, wit and folly.

In Nightmare Abbey (1818), Peacock turns his satirical eye on the gloomy introspection of Romanticism. Through the figure of Scythrop Glowry—an idealist caught between revolutionary dreams and romantic confusion—Peacock gently mocks the earnest intensity of his contemporaries, including Lord Byron and his friend Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Both novels reveal Peacock’s unique literary voice: intellectually playful, elegantly sceptical, and delightfully absurd. They offer timeless reflections on human nature and the allure (and absurdity) of extremes—qualities that make them just as relevant, and just as funny, today.

With this edition, we hope to reintroduce Peacock’s work to a new generation of readers. These novels occupy a special place in English literature—not only as rare comic gems of the Romantic period, but also as brilliant, accessible commentaries on the way we think, argue, and dream.

This is just the beginning for P-Wave Classics. We can’t wait to share more timeless books with you. But for today, we raise a glass to Headlong Hall and Nightmare Abbey—now back in print, and ready to be rediscovered.

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