The Adventures of Roderick Random
Smollett follows Roderick Random through hardship, naval service, travel, violence, romance, and comic misadventure in a sprawling picaresque narrative
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Smollett follows Roderick Random through hardship, naval service, travel, violence, romance, and comic misadventure in a sprawling picaresque narrative
Roderick Random is Tobias Smollett’s picaresque novel about a young man thrown into a harsh, ridiculous world where survival depends on wit, adaptability, and luck. Roderick is separated from security early in life and pushed into a succession of occupations, journeys, friendships, rivalries
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker follows a family traveling through England and Wales in a chaotic journey that becomes a comic cross-section of eighteenth-century British society. Tobias Smollett tells the story through letters written by different characters, so the same event can look
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