The Adventures of Roderick Random (Esprios Classics) - Tobias Smollett - Books - Blurb - 9781714600540 - August 28, 2024
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The Adventures of Roderick Random (Esprios Classics)

Tobias Smollett

The Adventures of Roderick Random (Esprios Classics)

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 Royal Navy, especially during the Battle of Cartagena de Indias in 1741. In the preface, Smollett acknowledges the connections of his novel to the two satirical picaresque works he translated into English: Cervantes' Don Quixote and Alain-René Lesage's Gil Blas. The novel tells the life story (in the first person) of Roderick "Rory" Random, who was born to a Scottish gentleman and a lower-class woman and is thus shunned by his father's family.


448 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released August 28, 2024
Original release date 2021
ISBN13 9781714600540
Publishers Blurb
Pages 448
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 25 mm   ·   653 g
Language English  

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