The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

ISBN: 9780140430219

³ö°æÉç: Penguin Classics

³ö°æÄê: 1973-07-26

Ò³Êý: 416 pages

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This book offers a fascinating picture of eighteenth-century society. Tough, splenetic, and widely experienced, of all the great novelists of his time Tobias Smollett is the one who registered best the bawdy, brutal side of the eighteenth-century life. Towards the end of his life, however, he grew mellower, and "Humphrey Clinker" (1771) is a tale of high good humour. Squire Bramble's picaresque tour of the Britain of George III has enough eccentric characters and comic adventures for several lifetimes, and a wealth of local colour.

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Tobias George Smollett (bapt. 19 March 1721 ¨C 17 September 1771) was a Scottish author, best known for his picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751).

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