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T Smollett
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"The Adventures of Roderick Random" is a picaresque novel by Tobias Smollett, first published in 1748. It is partially based on Smollett's experience as a naval-surgeon's mate in the British Navy, especially during the Battle of Cartagena de Indias in 1741. Roderick is combative, often violent, but capable of great affection and generosity. His father had been disinherited and has left Scotland leaving his son penniless. After a brief apprenticeship...
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"The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom" by Tobias Smollett is a satirical novel written in the mid-18th century. The narrative follows the cunning and morally ambiguous character of Ferdinand Count Fathom, a man of mysterious parentage armed with an extraordinary talent for deception and manipulation. The story sets the stage for themes of vice and virtue, exploring Fathom's escapades and schemes as he navigates a world ripe for exploitation. The...
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The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, Tobias Smollett's last published novel and most celebrated work, appeared in June 1771, three months before the author's death. A classic in the history of the English novel, it takes the form of a collection of letters written by various members of Mr. Matthew Bramble's family (for whom Humphry Clinker is a general servant) during their eight months of travel in England and Scotland in the 1760's. The wanderings...
4) Candide
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"If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?" - CANDIDE
Candide is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. It is the absurdly melodramatic story of a young man, Candide, living a sheltered life who clings desperately to "the best of all possible worlds," one which is abruptly interrupted by a series of painfully disillusioning events that set him off on a wide-ranging journey....
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Zadig or, The Book of Fate is both a novel and a work of philosophical fiction. Presenting life as in the control of destiny beyond any human control, the book presents questions about religion and the metaphysical. Because of its elaborate and skillful use of juxtaposition, contradiction and form, it is considered Voltaire's most celebrated work after Candide. The work tells the story of Zadig, a philosopher in ancient Babylonia who finds himself...
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E.P. Dutton & co
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[1930]
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Travel through eighteenth-century Europe with aristocratic dandy Peregrine Pickle, a hilarious character plucked from the imagination of famed Scottish author Tobias Smollett. In The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Smollett uses his protagonist as the lens through which to pull off a side-splitting send-up of the ridiculous airs and blatant hypocrisy that were endemic during the era.
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Tobias Smollett, in the preface to his first novel, The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748), acknowledges the influence of Alain Rene Le Sage's L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane (1715-35 in four volumes) on his work. By far the most successful of "useful and entertaining" romances, Gil Blas, Smollett writes, describes "the knavery and foibles of life, with infinite humour and sagacity." "The following sheets," he adds significantly, "I have modeled...
