Expedition of Humphry Clinker Author:Tobias Smollett First published in 1771, and often regarded as Smollett's finest book, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker relates, in an ingenious series of overlapping letters, the adventures of Mr Matthew Bramble's family party as they travel through England and Scotland. The group includes a gouty country squire, a husband-hunter, an Oxford s... more »tudent, and an illiterate but racy lady's maid. They recount their travelling adventures. They gossip. They tell stories of Humphry Clinker, a servant picked up en route, and they record their individual reactions to the tour. Engrossing and entertaining, the novel provides a satirical and witty picture of the contemporary social and political scene.« less
ISBN-13: 9780451002846 ISBN-10: 0451002849 Pages:352 Edition:New Ed Rating:
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.