The seventh and final novel of Thomas Love Peacock followed the others after a silence of?30 years, its typical Peacockian format intact: an idyllic, country house setting, a genial host, many opinion
The basis for Puccini's opera La Boheme and the musical Rent, and a?wonderful evocation of 19th-century Paris?Originally published in 1851, Henri Murger's best-known work novel draws largely on Murger
