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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.
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paperback. Condition: Very Good in Wrappers. No Jacket. First Edition. New York. 1960. August 1960. Signet/New American Library. 1st Signet Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 045150030x. Foreword By Monroe Engel. 350 pages. paperback. CD30. Cover: Milton Glaser. keywords: Signet Classic Literature England 18th Century. DESCRIPTION - With the sharp sensitivity of 'a man without skin' Tobias Smollett humorously attacked the frivolity and foibles of eighteenth - century England. Humphry Clinker is his mirthful tale of a tour by coach and four through cities and countryside. Five people embark on the journey: the crusty eccentric, Squire Bramble; his husband - hunting sister, Tabitha; her maid, Winifred; and Bramble's youthful niece and nephew, Lydia and Jery. En route they are joined by Humphry Clinker, an honest Wiltshire lad of tattered cloth and empty purse. As misadventure follows misadventure, each character reveals his true self by giving his own conflicting view of the incidents, places, and people encountered along the way. The result is an entertaining and realistic picture of that wonderful age when gentlemen duelled, ladies swooned, and servants rose from rags to riches. inventory #30293. Seller Inventory # z30293
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