The Expedition of Humphry Clinker - Softcover

Smollett, Tobias

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140430210 ISBN 13: 9780140430219

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1967

Synopsis

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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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: 1967
• ISBN 10: 0140430210
• ISBN 13: 9780140430219
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416