The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Smollett, Tobias

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192835947 ISBN 13: 9780192835949

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks, 1998

Synopsis

William Thackeray called it "the most laughable story that has ever been written since the goodly art of novel-writing began." As a group of travellers visit places in England and Scotland, they provide through satire and wit a vivid and detailed picture of the contemporary social and political scene.

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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"

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"

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:

Novelist, playwright, journalist, historian, travel writer, critic, translator, editor, and compiler, Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) was an eighteenth-century man of letters in the fullest sense of the phrase. Though his writings have been variously gathered together over the last two centuries, no definitive scholarly edition of Smollett's works has ever been published. The Georgia edition, though not a complete collection, includes all of those writings by which Smollett was best known in his own time and by which he is best remembered in ours. Jerry C. Beasley, General Editor, is a professor of English at the University of Delaware. He is the editor of "The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom," the first volume to be published in the Georgia edition of "The Works of Tobias Smollett." O.M. Brack, Jr., Textual Editor, is a professor of English at Arizona State University. He is the editor of the forthcoming first volume of "The Shorter Prose Writings of Samuel Johnson." Jim Springer Borck, Technical Editor, is a professor of English at Louisiana State University. He is general editor of the annual "Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography."

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0192835947
• ISBN 13: 9780192835949
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Knapp Lewis M., Boucé Paul-Gabriel