The Adventures Of Peregrine Pickle: In Which Are Included Memoirs Of A Lady Of Quality
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Few novels of the eighteenth century capture the raucous, unruly spirit of Georgian Britain with the same riotous energy as Tobias Smollett's The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle. Published originally in 1751, this picaresque masterpiece chronicles the escapades of the incorrigible Peregrine Pickle — a brilliantly witty, morally ambiguous young rogue — as he careers through the drawing rooms, taverns, and continental courts of Europe, leaving a trail of schemes, seductions, and uproarious misadventures in his wake. Nestled within this sprawling narrative is the infamous interpolated tale, Memoirs of a Lady of Quality, a scandalous first-person confession that caused considerable controversy upon its first appearance and remains a fascinating document of the era's social mores. Smollett's prose is sharp, satirical, and unsparing, skewering aristocratic pretension, medical quackery, and social hypocrisy with a physician's precision and a comedian's timing — a style that places him firmly alongside Fielding and Defoe in the first rank of the English novel's founding figures. This Oxford University Press edition, edited and introduced by the distinguished scholar James L. Clifford, presents the definitive text alongside authoritative scholarly apparatus, making it an indispensable volume for students and lovers of classic literature alike. Will Peregrine's sharp mind ultimately prove his salvation, or will his boundless appetite for mischief be his undoing?
Author: Tobias Smollett
Format: Hardback
Published: 1964, Oxford University Press
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Few novels of the eighteenth century capture the raucous, unruly spirit of Georgian Britain with the same riotous energy as Tobias Smollett's The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle. Published originally in 1751, this picaresque masterpiece chronicles the escapades of the incorrigible Peregrine Pickle — a brilliantly witty, morally ambiguous young rogue — as he careers through the drawing rooms, taverns, and continental courts of Europe, leaving a trail of schemes, seductions, and uproarious misadventures in his wake. Nestled within this sprawling narrative is the infamous interpolated tale, Memoirs of a Lady of Quality, a scandalous first-person confession that caused considerable controversy upon its first appearance and remains a fascinating document of the era's social mores. Smollett's prose is sharp, satirical, and unsparing, skewering aristocratic pretension, medical quackery, and social hypocrisy with a physician's precision and a comedian's timing — a style that places him firmly alongside Fielding and Defoe in the first rank of the English novel's founding figures. This Oxford University Press edition, edited and introduced by the distinguished scholar James L. Clifford, presents the definitive text alongside authoritative scholarly apparatus, making it an indispensable volume for students and lovers of classic literature alike. Will Peregrine's sharp mind ultimately prove his salvation, or will his boundless appetite for mischief be his undoing?