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Gryll Grange, by Thomas Love Peacock
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Title: Gryll Grange
Author: Thomas Love Peacock
Commentator: George Saintsbury
Illustrator: F. H. Townsend
Release Date: May 17, 2007 [EBook #21514]
Language: English
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GRYLL GRANGE
By Thomas Love Peacock
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GRYLL GRANGE
BY
THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK
ILLUSTRATED BY F. H. TOWNSEND
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GEORGE SAINTSBURY
London
MACMILLAN AND CO., Ltd.
NEW YORK: MACMILLAN & CO.
1896
INTRODUCTION
Gryll Grange, the last and mellowest fruit from Peacock's tree, was, like most mellow fruit, not matured hastily. In saying this I do not refer to the long period--exactly a generation in the conventional sense--which intervened between Crotchet Castle of 1831 and this of 1861. For we know as a matter of fact, from the preface to the 1856 edition of Melincourt, that Peacock was planning Gryll Grange at a time considerably nearer to, but still some years from, its actual publication.
There might perhaps have been room for fear lest such a proceeding, on the pa