The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (English Library)

Type

Book

Authors

Tobias Smollett

ISBN 10

0140430210

ISBN 13

9780140430219

Tags

Criticism & Theory, Contemporary, Literary

Description

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. - from Amzon

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