Thomas Love Peacock

Thomas Love Peacock was born in 1785, lost his father as a child, left school as a teenager and taught himself Greek, of which he became one of the best connoisseurs of his time. He spent most of his career at the East India Company, where he examined correspondence and championed steam navigation. He wrote seven novels on the margins of this job, most of them built on conversations. He died in 1866, aged eighty, from the effects of a fire in which he had refused to abandon his library.

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• NovelNightmare AbbeyThomas Love Peacock · 1818LiteraturePublic domain