The Adventures of Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett

The Adventures of Roderick Random

Tobias Smollett

680 pages first pub 1748 (editions)

fiction classics adventurous slow-paced
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This is the definitive scholarly edition of Tobias Smollett's first novel, widely regarded as one of his two masterpieces, the other being The Expedition of Humphry Clinker. Roderick Random was also, in its time, the chief rival to Henry Fielding'...

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