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The Adventures Of Rodorick Random. A lively 18th-century picaresque novel recounts the misadventures of Rodorick Random, a spirited North Briton born to fortunes shifting and precarious. The narrative follows his stormy youth: a stern grandfather, a distant father, a mother dead in childbirth, and a tutor who inflicts brutal discipline. Rodorick's restless wit and cunning propel him from village quarrels to schools, universities, and the open road, accompanied by a cast of recurring comrades and opportunists—Strap, Gawky, Crab, Staytape—and a long apprenticeship to survive. Rodorick roams from Scotland to London, from a penniless student to a sea-venturer and surgeon’s mate, sharing hare-brained schemes, duels, petty robberies, and nautical adventures with comic gusto. The prose mingles broad humor with reflections on virtue, fortune, and the foibles of ambition. It is a rousing, shambling portrait of a rogue’s progress through a bustling, mercantile world.
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