The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (English Library) - Softcover

Smollett, Tobias

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140430210 ISBN 13: 9780140430219

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1973

Synopsis

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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Review:

This is the first really significant scholarly edition of the last-published novel by Smollett, which includes some wonderful illustrations. . . . Nothing seems to have been overlooked by Preston and Brack here in their efforts to present to the modern reader "the" most authoritative edition."--"Choice"

About the Author:

Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) was a Scottish physician and writer. His novel Ferdinand Count Fathom [1753] is an early precursor of and influence upon Gothic fiction.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0140430210
• ISBN 13: 9780140430219
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Ross Angus