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Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett

ISBN: 9780141199320 PUBLISHER: Penguin Books Ltd FORMAT: Paperback PAGES: 448 PUBLICATION DATE: 31.05.2012 DIMENSIONS: 198mmX129mmX19mm 309grams

DESCRIPTION: This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Humphry Clinker" by Tobias Smollett. 'What is the society of London, that I should be tempted, for its sake, to mortify my senses, and compound with such uncleanness as my soul abhors?' Smollett's savage, boisterously funny lambasting of eighteenth-century British society charts the unfortunate journey of the gout-ridden and irascible squire Matthew Bramble across Britain, who finds himself everywhere surrounded by decadents, pimps, con-men, raucousness and degeneracy - until the arrival of the trusty manservant Humphry Clinker promises to improve his fortunes. Populated with unforgettable grotesques and written with a relish for earthy humour and wordplay, and a ferocious pessimism, "Humphry Clinker" is Smollett's masterpiece. "The Penguin English Library" contains 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

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