Books by Thomas Love Peacock
Melincourt
by Thomas Love Peacock
It’s that very impressive thing, a novel of ideas that is also gripping and very funny too. It’s not new – Peacock wrote it to explore and satirise the contemporary debate, 20 years after Malthus first published – but it’s just as relevant today: it points out very clearly the inconsistencies of a fundamentally immoral situation.
Interviews where books by Thomas Love Peacock were recommended
The best books on The Global Food Scandal, recommended by Tristram Stuart
The campaigner and historian says that Western countries waste more food than they consume. Believe him: he survives off food scavenged exclusively from supermarket bins