Humphry Clinker (Penguin Classics)
by Tobias Smollett
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- Paperback
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- New/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0141441429
- ISBN 13
- 9780141441429
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Synopsis
The eighteenth-century picaresque masterpiece- now in a new edition A triumph of English satire, Humphry Clinker was published just three months prior to its author's death in 1771. At its heart is Matthew Bramble, a gout-ridden misanthrope who travels Britain with his nephew, niece, spinster sister, and manservant, the trusty Humphry Clinker. In a narrative peopled with pimps, drunkards, and con men, Bramble's pessimistic views on the world's degeneracy- and his eagerness to express them-betray the author's belief that his countrymen were suffering from an acute lack of sense and sobriety. Boisterous and keenly observant, Humphry Clinker is a delicious send-up of eighteenth-century society.
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- Next Page Bookstore, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 778
- Title
- Humphry Clinker (Penguin Classics)
- Author
- Tobias Smollett
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 3
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0141441429
- ISBN 13
- 9780141441429
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Date Published
- December 2008
- Pages
- 496
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classics;
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