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Expedition of Humphry Clinker. NOVEL by
2016·114 pages
An epistolary satire following a misanthropic Welsh squire, his family, and servants on a restorative journey through 18th-century English and Scottish spa towns and resorts.
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An epistolary satire following a misanthropic Welsh squire, his family, and servants on a restorative journey through 18th-century English and Scottish spa towns and resorts.
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The Expedition of Humphry Clinker was the last of the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett, and is considered by many to be his best and funniest work.[1] Published in London on 17 June 1771 (just three months before Smollett's death), it is an epistolary novel, presented in the form of letters written by six characters: Matthew Bramble, a Welsh Squire; his sister Tabitha; their niece and nephew, Lydia and Jeremy Melford; Tabitha's maid Winifred Jenkins and Lydia's suitor, Wilson. Much of the co...
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