The Expedition of Humphry Clinker: One Journey, Five Letter-Writers
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Gainsborough Dupont, Thomas Gainsborough and William Hogarth. A Welsh squire drags his household to Bath, Harrogate, London and Scotland for the waters, and five of them write home about the same journey: the gouty uncle, the sour spinster, the star-struck niece, the nephew from Oxford and the maid who spells as she hears. Smollett was a surgeon and a hack who died within months of publishing it in 1771. The joke is that nobody's version agrees with anyone else's. Fifty-eight plates by Hogarth and Rowlandson track the coach, the inn and the tavern through which five travellers see the same road.
Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Gainsborough Dupont, Thomas Gainsborough and William Hogarth. A Welsh squire drags his household to Bath, Harrogate, London and Scotland for the waters, and five of them write home about the same journey: the gouty uncle, the sour spinster, the...
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Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) was a Scottish novelist and surgeon born in Dunbartonshire. He served aboard a warship in the Caribbean, practised medicine in London, and edited the Critical Review. His works include Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Ferdinand Count Fathom, and Humphry Clinker.
Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) was a Scottish novelist and surgeon born in Dunbartonshire. He served aboard a warship in the Caribbean, practised medicine in London, and edited the Critical Review. His works include Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Ferdinand Count Fathom, and Humphry Clinker.
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