Oxford World's Classics: Humphry Clinker - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0192816640 ISBN 13: 9780192816641

Publisher: Oxford University Press España, S.A., 1984

Synopsis

"Mathew Bramble,a quick-tempered, large-hearted English squire decides to tour England and Scotland by coach in the company of his family and servants.Set in early nineteenth century England, this delightful novel consists entirely of a set of letters penned by individual members of the entourage to their respective friends and associates at home. The novel gradually unfolds the quirks and foibles of each character, humorous as well as engaging.The journey itself is full of unexpected events, and holds the interest of the reader till the very end.The observations and commentary of the squire on the society he encounters are penetrating and thought-provoking and provide an insight into English society of that time."

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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 University Press España, S.A.
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0192816640
• ISBN 13: 9780192816641
• Binding: Paperback