The Expedition Of Humphry Clinker Author:Tobias Smollett, Arthur MacHen William Thackeray called it "the most laughable story that has ever been written since the goodly art of novel-writing began." As a group of travellers visit places in England and Scotland, they provide through satire and wit a vivid and detailed picture of the contemporary social and political scene.
Humphry Clinker is one of the jewels of 18th-century English fiction, a novel which not only tells much about the development of the genre, but which also continues to amuse today.