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This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. ... Read more

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This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. ... Read more

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This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.Download Description
Sir Launcelot being thus alarmed, started from his bed, and running to the window, beheld a cavalcade of persons well mounted, and distinguished by blue cockades. They were generally attired like jockies, with gold-laced hats and buckskin breeches, and one of them bore a standard of blue silk, inscribed in white letters, Liberty and the Landed Interest. He who rode at their head was a jolly figure, of a florid complexion and round belly, seemingly turned of fifty, and, in all appearance, of a choleric disposition. As they approached the market-place they waved their hats, huzza'd, and cried aloud, No Foreign Connections,-- Old-England for ever. ... Read more

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Smolletts' The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
Launcelot Greaves, Tobias Smollett's quixotic character, takes you on ahilarious journey filled with wonderfully funny scenes and characters.Thebook moves at the leisurely pace Smollett and Fielding made such excellentuse of in their novels.Not only does Smollet amuse and surprise in thisnovel, but he also provides a insightful commentary on class, primogenitureand the state of the nobility in 18th-century England.This book youfinish with a grin and a wistful sigh, because you don't want the story toend, a novel both funny and thoughtful in the best of senses. ... Read more

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A wonderfully gossipy, humourous novel!
Smollett has written a number of good stories, but this is probably his most complex of all that he's written.The book provides the reader with a hero that is memorable.Smollett provides just the right touch of madness and humour in his hero to make this a very warm, readable story.The format for this novel is letters which makes for an interesting change, and provides a unique way of developing characters.So much of a person's individuality can be found in letters and in fact, letters are a major source of historical information.But in these letters we learn all we need to know about Humphrey Clinker and his England.An unclean and brutal world it was with death, disease and decay.But there was unbelievable love and warmth too.What a journey!

My favorite book ever..and I'm not kidding.
This is a book that I was obligated to purchase for an 18th century lit class. We never got to it on the syllabus, so it collected dust. When I did finally pick it up I couldn't put it down. I laughed out loud frequently. I am amazed at how well it's 18th century humor has stood the test of time. You must commit past the first 50 or so pages to get into the rhythm and style. Then you'll be hooked. Lest you think that this is just a book for English majors with a bent towards the 18th century, I should point out that my other two favorite books are Lonesome Dove and Cryptonomicon. ... Read more

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The burghers here, as in other places, consist of merchants, shop-keepers, and artisans. Some of the merchants have got fortunes, by fitting out privateers during the war. A great many single ships were taken from the English, notwithstanding the good look-out of our cruisers, who were so alert, that the privateers from this coast were often taken in four hours after they sailed from the French harbour; and there is hardly a captain of an armateur in Boulogne, who has not been prisoner in England five or six times in the course of the war. They were fitted out at a very small expence, and used to run over in the night to the coast of England, where they hovered as English fishing smacks, until they kidnapped some coaster, with which they made the best of their way across the Channel.Download Description
After the death of his daughter, Smollet set off on a two-year tour of the Continent. This is the alternately crotchety and appreciative record of his adventures. ... Read more