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The expedition of Humphry Clinker
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Tobias George Smollett
Smollett's last novel, written when he was mortally ill with tuberculosis, is an epistolary tale recounting the adventures of the Clinker family as they travel in the British Isles. It was published three months before his death.
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The adventures of Roderick Random
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Roderick Random (1748), Smollett's first novel, is full of the dazzling vitality characteristics of all his work, as well as of his own life. Roderick is the boisterous and unprincipled hero who answers life's many misfortunes with a sledgehammer. Left penniless, he leaves his native Scotland for London and on the way meets Strap, and old ...
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Travels through France and Italy
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After the death of his daughter, Smollet set off on a two-year tour of the Continent. This is the alternately crotchety and appreciative record of his adventures.
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The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
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The hero of "Ferdinand Count Fathom" (1753) is a monster of treachery and fraud. Fate and coincidence play a large part in his picaresque progress through England and Europe, and much of the narrative is written in a mock-heroic style. This critical study explains the literary and historical background of the 18th-century world in which the book ...
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Humphry Clinker.
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Matthew Bramble, a gout-ridden misanthrope, travels Britain with his nephew, niece, spinster sister and man-servant, the trusty Humphry Clinker. In poor health, Bramble sees the world as one of degeneracy and raucous overcrowding, and will not hesitate to let his companions know his feelings on the matter. Peopled with pimps, drunkards, decadents ...
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The Young Musician's Survival Guide: Tips from Teens & Pros
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Amy Nathan
Learning to play an instrument can be fund and, at times, frustrating. This lively, accessible book helps young people cope with the difficulties involved in learning a new instrument and remaining dedicated to playing and practicing. Teens from renowned music programs - including the Juilliard School's Pre-College Program and Boston University's ...
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The adventures of Peregrine Pickle
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAP, XLI. Mr. Jolter threatens to have him on account of his mifconduft, which te promifes to reflify; tut bis resolution is defeated by the impetuoftty of his 'af- ...
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The life and adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
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Tobias George Smollett
This work brings to life Tobias Smollett's fourth novel, "The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves". This version includes more accurate text and critical information. It also includes an examination of "Sir Launcelot Greaves", the first illustrated serial novel, in relation to the engravings by Anthony Walker. The most attractive of his ...
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Don Quixote: The History and Adventures of the Renowned
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Tobias George Smollett (Translator), Carlos Fuentes (Introduction by)
Perhaps the greatest--and certainly the most famous--novel ever written in Spanish, "Don Quixote" is the classic picaresque tale of a knight-errant living in a world which has no use for him. Written as a history, it gives an account of the life of Don Quixote of la Mancha, a deluded 17th-century Spaniard who believes himself to be a medieval ...
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The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, O M Brack, Jr. (Editor), Tobias George Smollett (Translator)
This volume presents Tobias Smollett's translation of Cervantes's "Don Quixote" in the form most faithful to Smollett's own intentions. Smollett's work first appeared in 1755 and was for many years the most popular English-language version of Cervantes's text. However, soon after the turn of the nineteenth century rival translators and scholers ...
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History and Adventures of an Atom
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Tobias George Smollett, Robert Adams Day (Editor)
Smollett wrote this historical satire in 1759.
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The works of Tobias Smollett
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER TWO HE IS MADE ACdUAINTED WITH THE CHARACTERS OF COMMODORE TRUNNION AND HIS ADHERENTS; MEETS WITH THEM BY ACCIDENT, AND CONTRACTS AN INTIMACY WITH THAT ...
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The Works of Voltaire: A Contemporary Version
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Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire
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Select Works of Tobias Smollett V1: Containing the Adventures of Peregrine Pickle and the Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
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Tobias George Smollett, Sir Walter Scott
In Two Volumes. Other ISBNs in this set include: 1432512692. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and ...
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Peregrine Pickle.
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The History of England
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 1644. Eo little studious of improving his private fortune in those "civil wars, of which he had been one principal author, that the parliament thought themselves ...
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Adventures of Telemachus, the Son of Ulysses
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Leslie A Chilton, O M Brack, Jr. (Editor), Tobias George Smollett (Translator)
One of the most popular and revered works of the 18th century. This text is a critical edition of Tobias Smollett's 1776 translation of Bishop Fenelon's 1699 "Mirror for Princes", written for Duc de Burgogne, heir presumptive to Louis XIV.
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The expedition of Humphrey Clinker
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Tobias George Smollett
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The Adventures of Roderick Random, Part 2
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Tobias George Smollett
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The adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
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Tobias George Smollett
Tobias George Smollett (1721-1771) was a Scottish author, best known for his picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1753). He was educated at the University of Glasgow qualifying as a surgeon. His career in medicine came second to his literary ambitions, and in 1739 he went to ...
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Roderick Random
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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History of Charles XII
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Voltaire, Tobias George Smollett
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The letters of Tobias Smollett
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Tobias George Smollett, Lewis M. Knapp
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Poems, Plays, and the Briton
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Tobias George Smollett, Byron Gassman (Editor)
The poems, plays, and political writings included in this volume are essential to an understanding of Tobias Smollett and the literary and social currents of eighteenth-century England. In introductions to the separate sections of the volume, Byron Gassman identifies the circumstances that prompted Smollett to undertake these writings, traces the ...
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Travels in France and Italy
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At the age of 42, following the death of his 15-year-old daughter and in failing health, Tobias Smollett embarked on a yearlong journey through France and Italy in 1763. Written as a series of letters, Travels in France and Italy describes in a delightfully grouchy manner his miserable experiences in each and every city he visited. Described by ...
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