Mr. Ebenezer Mac Crotchet, a self-made man with a taste for philosophy, fills his villa in the Thames valley with guests who each ride a hobby-horse: political economists, medievalists, transcendentalists and men of the ‘march of mind’. The Reverend Dr. Folliott, armed with Greek, good dinners and a stout stick, answers them all.
Peacock’s witty conversation-novel of 1831 lampoons the intellectual fashions of his day and still reads quickly and sharply. Download the free EPUB.