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The expedition of Humphry Clinker
Prepare yourself for a journey most riotous, conducted by a band of eccentrics whose letters betray more about themselves than they intend. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker is a comical tour of 18th-century Britain, told entirely through the eyes—and pens—of one quarrelsome family and their curious companions. At the heart of this epistolary escapade is the unlikely hero, Humphry Clinker—a poor, pious stableboy whose rise from obscurity brings equal measures of confusion and revelation. Around him spin a cast of verbose hypochondriacs, moralists, social climbers, and romantics, each armed with their own opinions and spelling quirks. With wit as sharp as a surgeon’s knife and sympathy that runs just beneath the satire, Smollett delivers a portrait of a nation in flux, bursting with contradictions and brimming with life. A farce, a travelogue, and a sly study of human folly, Humphry Clinker remains one of the most charming and chaotic literary road trips ever penned.
- Language
- EN
- Genres
- comedy, novel, satire
- Published
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