The Tobias Smollett Page
( 1721-1771 )
Major Works
Four of Smollett's novels are available in Penguin editions.
" The Tears of Scotland " ( 1746 ). Poem on the defeat of the Scots at the Battle of Culloden.
The Adventures of Roderick Random ( 1748 ).
Gil Blas. Translation of LeSage's novel ( 1749 ).
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle ( 1751 ).
The Adventures of Ferdinand, Count Fathom ( 1753 ).
Don Quixote. Translation of Cervantes' novel. ( 1755 ).
The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves ( 1760 ).
Travels through France and Italy ( 1766 ).
The History and Adventures of an Atom ( 1769 ).
The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker ( 1771 ). Epistolary novel told by several characters, the illiteracy of some of whom gives Smollett the opportunity for hilarious double entendre. Norton Critical Edition, edited by James L. Thorson. On Line from Biblomania.
Letters. Edited by Edward S. Noyes. Harvard, 1926.
About Smollett
Lewis M. Knapp, Smollett: Doctor of Men and Manners. Princeton, 1949.
Smollett Criticism from Internet Public Library.
Smollett and Fielding from Bartleby.
Tobias Smollett from Bibliomania.
Tobias George Smollett from Scottish Authors.
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