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The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves

Author
Tobias Smollett
Read by
Finian Silverwood
Language
English
Length
9 hours 7 minutes
ISBN
9781802566956
Published
26 June 2025
Imprint
Fantastica
  • Smollett
  • adventure
  • picaresque
  • classic
  • travel
  • voyages
  • adventure stories
  • history
  • historic
  • mysterious

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Description

A baronet crossed in love for Aurelia Darnel turns knight-errant on Georgian turnpike roads, squire Crabshaw at his side. Smollett’s compact comedy runs through inns, justices, elections, and a madhouse — armour against law and cant, Captain Crowe’s sea-jargon on land, honour stubborn enough to look mad. Cervantine satire in English mud: institutions stranger than the man in the visor.

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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