The Adventures of Roderick Random

Name: The Adventures of Roderick Random
Author: Tobias Smollett
ISBN: 9781802566901

Author: Tobias Smollett
Read by: Finian Silverwood
Language: English
Length: 18 hours 17 minutes
ISBN: 9781802566901
Published: 24 June 2025
Imprint: Fantastica

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Roderick, half-neglected and fully game, knocks through Britain, France, and the navy’s hard decks chasing love, money, and the next scrape. Smollett’s bawdy picaresque spoken as survival with satire in the blood.

Author

Tobias Smollett (1721–1771) wrote picaresque novels of sailors, scoundrels, and a Scotland on the make. A surgeon before he was a novelist, he never lost the medical stare: bodies, ships, and social climbers observed without perfume. Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, and Humphry Clinker made English fiction louder, ruder, and more mobile. The comedy is rough; the letters in Clinker still feel like a nation talking to itself.

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Ebook · English · Fantastica9781911495987