Peacock: 221 books

Book cover of The Analyst: Poems
by Molly Peacock
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017

“Whatever the subject, rich music follows the tap of Molly Peacock’s baton.”—Washington Post When a psychoanalyst became a painter after surviving a stroke, her longtime patient, distinguished and beloved poet Molly Peacock, took up a unique task. Weaving an invigorating tapestry of...
Book cover of Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock
by Thomas Love Peacock
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013

In his most famous work, NIGHTMARE ABBEY, Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) pokes fun at the Romantic movement's fascination with misanthropy, the supernatural, and transcendental philosophy through the agency of a reclusive widower, Christopher Glowry, Esquire, and his only son, Scythrop who live alone in dilapidated mansion.
Book cover of The Man, the Message, the Ministry
by Dr. David Peacock
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014

The Man: You cant separate the man from the message. This chapter deals with the preparations and surrender that a true God-called preacher must be willing to endure. Drawing from Pauls pattern to the Thessalonians, Dr. Peacock deals with issues like confrontation, preaching for results, and discouragement....
Book cover of Innocent Weapons

Innocent Weapons

The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood in the Cold War

by Margaret Peacock
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014

In the 1950s and 1960s, images of children appeared everywhere, from movies to milk cartons, their smiling faces used to sell everything, including war. In this provocative book, Margaret Peacock offers an original account of how Soviet and American leaders used emotionally charged images of children...
Book cover of The Misfortunes of Elphin
by Thomas Love Peacock
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015

Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) was an English poet and writer who worked in the genre of satire. His works are dedicated to satirizing the customs and day-to-day life of his contemporaries. Peacock’s writing style combines the elements of the mock-Gothic with those of the Aristophanic. 'The...
Book cover of Nightmare Abbey & Crotchet Castle
by Thomas Love Peacock
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2018

Nightmare Abbey concerns the unhappy love interests of one Scythrop Glowry, as those interests take shape at various times in the persons of Miss Marionetta O’Carroll and Miss Celinda Toobad. Do these characters represent deliberate portraits of Percy Bysshe Shelley, his first wife, Harriet,...
Book cover of Alphabetique, 26 Characteristic Fictions
by Molly Peacock
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014

Take the sumptuousness of Molly Peacock's own #1 bestselling The Paper Garden, the extraordinary creative variety of The Bedside Book of Birds, and the cat-nip-for-language-geeks appeal of Eats, Shoots and Leaves, and wrap it around tales rich with wisdom and humanity, and you get Alphabetique: the...
Book cover of Gryll Grange
by Thomas Love Peacock
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2018

“Gryll Grange” is an 1861 novel by Thomas Love Peacock. His seventh and last novel, it tells the story of Gregory Gryll, a descendant of the ancient and noble Gryllus who, for lack of better options, chooses his niece to be his heir. However, Gryll's plan falls short when his new heir finds it...
Book cover of Creatures of the Rock

Creatures of the Rock

A Veterinarian's Adventures in Newfoundland

by Andrew Peacock
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014

 When you’re the only veterinarian in an area that’s 130 miles long and has a coast on either side, you never know what each new day might bring. A cow giving birth, a colicky horse, an aggressive lynx, caribou in need of pastures new, a polar bear in a bingo hall, a six-hundred-pound boar who...
Book cover of A Peacock Speaks Again
by Donald Peacock
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016

A Peacock Speaks Again is a collection of forty fictional short stories ranging from authors trying to get published to stories about people in various situations as well as stories based on puns. Many of the stories have surprise endings as well as some with happy endings between people. It also includes some holiday stories.
Book cover of The Misfortunes of Elphin
by Thomas Love Peacock
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2018

“The Misfortunes of Elphin” is a 1829 novella by English novelist and poet Thomas Love Peacock. The fifth serious fictional work that he completed, it is set in England at the time of the legendary King Arthur and contains many elements of Welsh legend, although it avoids the magical and preternatural...
Book cover of The Paper Garden

The Paper Garden

An Artist Begins Her Life's Work at 72

by Molly Peacock
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011

Mary Delany was seventy-two years old when she noticed a petal drop from a geranium. In a flash of inspiration, she picked up her scissors and cut out a paper replica of the petal, inventing the art of collage. It was the summer of 1772, in England. During the next ten years she completed nearly a...
Book cover of A Broom of One's Own

A Broom of One's Own

Essays on Housecleaning and the Writing

by Nancy Peacock
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009

For the twice-published novelist, reading an article about herself in the National Enquirer—under the headline "Here's One for the Books: Cleaning Lady Is an Acclaimed Author"—was more than a shock. It was an inspiration. In A Broom of One's Own, Nancy Peacock, whose first novel...
Book cover of The Secret Fiend

The Secret Fiend

The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His 4th Case

by Shane Peacock
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010

It is 1868, the week that Benjamin Disraeli becomes Prime Minister of the Empire. Sherlock's beautiful but poor admirer, Beatrice, the hatter's daughter, appears at the door late at night. She is terrified, claiming that she and her friend have just been attacked by the Spring Heeled Jack on Westminster...
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