About this title: 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 schoolfellow. Together they undergo many adventures at the hands of scoundrels and rogues. Roderick qualifies as a surgeon's mate and is pressed as a common soldier on bord the man-of-war Thunder. In a tale of romance as well as adventure, Roderick also ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New American Library, New York
Date Published: 1964
Description: Very Good. 480 p.; 18 cm. Cover title: Roderick Random. "The text...is that of the third edition (revised) published in London in 1750"--p. 480. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780192812612ISBN:0192812610
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. A very nice copy with light rubs to corners covers. Scan available. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Date Published: 2009-06-15
ISBN-13:9780199552344ISBN:0199552347
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780199552344. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Folio Society, London
Description: Wood-engravings By Martin Frank. Very Good. This 6 x 9 hardcover has 458 pages. There are two "withdrawn" stamps and no other markings. The novel tells the life story (in the first person) of Roderick "Rory" Random, who was born to a nobleman and a lower-class woman and is thus shunned by his father's family. His mother dies soon after his birth and his father is driven mad with grief. After a few years of resentfully paying for Roderick's education, his grandfather finally casts him out after ... read more
Edition: Ex-lib
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Folio Society, London
Date Published: 1961
Description: Wood-engravings By Frank Martin. Very Good. This 6 x 9 hardcover has 458 pages. This ex-library edition has two withdrawn stamps on on the front and back of the title page, and there are no other markings. 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 ... read more
Description: Acceptable. Ships from the UK. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. read more
Binding: Half-Leather
Publisher: Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig
Date Published: 1845
Description: Good Plus. 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" tall. 475p. leather edge wear along spine and at top spine. Will present itself if oiled. Marbled boards, endpapers and page edges. Tight with no shake though opening at hinges. Pages light tanning. Spine title label missing. read more
Binding: Hard Back
Publisher: Hutchinson & Co., London
Description: Cruikshank, George. Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. No publishing date. Some toning esp inside front and back covers. Previous owner name and date (1927) inside front cover. Light to moderate wear, corners bent with light wear. Possibly published early 1900s. No other writing noted. Binding tight. read more
Edition: Classic Novels
Binding: Cloth Bds
Publisher: Hutchinson, London
Date Published: No pub date
Description: George Cruikshank. Very Good. 12mo. no dustwrapper. 519pp. Being a volume in the Hutchinson Classic Novels series; attractive little edition, w/ clay-coloured cloth boards, title-label to spine, uncut pages; full-page illustrations by George Cruikshank; this copy has some offset to endpapers, light foxing to prelims, o.w. Very Good throughout. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Brothers, New York
Date Published: 1836
Description: George Cruikshank. Good. Octavo. Hardcover. Illustrated. Good, soil to covers and spots to pages, rubbing to cover at corners and bottom edge. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia
Date Published: 1899
Description: Frank Richards. Acceptable. No Jacket. Novel. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Book: Acceptable. Moderate wear, spine faded. Gold gilt lettering and top edge. Small crack rear hinge. No jacket. 216 pages. (The Works of Tobias Smollett edited by George Saintsbury in twelve volumes-Volume III) Chapters forty-seven through sixty-nine. read more
"Reread after 25-odd years, and just as lively, scathing, sentimental, violent and all-around human as I remembered it. Rock & roll melodrama from start to finish."
"Petty, bad-tempered predecessor to Dickens' Copperfield, Roderick is crude, self-serving, vengeful and bawdy. This archetype of the rambling, picaresque novel is, as John Barth writes in the amusing afterword to my Signet Classics edition, well worth reading, once only, and don't look for anything like symbolism or structure."
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