The Expedition Of Humphry Clinker
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Moisture damage (small), top corner of block.
A landmark of eighteenth-century British literature, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker is an epistolary comic novel that chronicles the rollicking journey of the irascible Matthew Bramble and his eccentric entourage as they travel through England and Scotland. Tobias Smollett masterfully presents the adventure through a series of letters written by multiple characters, each offering a hilariously distinct perspective on the same events, people, and places encountered along the road. The novel uncovers the social landscape of Georgian Britain with sharp satirical wit, skewering everything from fashionable Bath society to the rugged customs of the Scottish Highlands. At its warm-hearted core, the story traces the surprising rise of the humble and good-natured Humphry Clinker himself, a ragged servant whose true identity gradually comes to light. Smollett's prose is boisterous, vivid, and deeply humane, securing this 1771 masterpiece its enduring reputation as one of the greatest comic novels in the English language.
Author: Tobias Smollett
Format: Hardback
Published: 1945, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc.
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Moisture damage (small), top corner of block.
A landmark of eighteenth-century British literature, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker is an epistolary comic novel that chronicles the rollicking journey of the irascible Matthew Bramble and his eccentric entourage as they travel through England and Scotland. Tobias Smollett masterfully presents the adventure through a series of letters written by multiple characters, each offering a hilariously distinct perspective on the same events, people, and places encountered along the road. The novel uncovers the social landscape of Georgian Britain with sharp satirical wit, skewering everything from fashionable Bath society to the rugged customs of the Scottish Highlands. At its warm-hearted core, the story traces the surprising rise of the humble and good-natured Humphry Clinker himself, a ragged servant whose true identity gradually comes to light. Smollett's prose is boisterous, vivid, and deeply humane, securing this 1771 masterpiece its enduring reputation as one of the greatest comic novels in the English language.