Complex sentence: Peacock's novels have little plot and are best-known for parodying the intellectual modes and pretenses of his contemporaries; they are dominated by extended conversations between the inhabitants and guests at characteristic English country houses.
Split into simpler sentences: Peacock's novels have little plot and are best-known for parodying the intellectual modes and pretenses of his contemporaries. They are dominated by extended conversations between the inhabitants and guests at characteristic English country houses.