Author · United Kingdom · 1785–1866
Thomas Love Peacock
Novels of ideas as dinner table comedy; poets and cranks under affectionate fire.
Thomas Love Peacock was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company.
Peacock wrote several satirical novels with the same setting: characters at a table discussing and criticising the philosophical opinions of the day.
Ideas with laughter in 2026
Thomas Love Peacock lets talk drive plot. Minds clash over science art and reform while friendship keeps the tone bright. Read him to enjoy satire that thinks and to see how argument can be sociable exact and fun.
