Humphry Clinker (The Penguin English Library)
Humphry Clinker (The Penguin English Library) by Tobias Smollett
English | July 31, 2012 | ISBN: 0141199326 | EPUB | 384 pages | 0.99 MB
English | July 31, 2012 | ISBN: 0141199326 | EPUB | 384 pages | 0.99 MB
With an essay by Harold Bloom.
'What is the society of London, that I should be tempted, for its sake, to mortify my senses, and compound with such uncleanness as my soul abhors?'
Smollett's savage, boisterously funny lambasting of eighteenth-century British society charts the unfortunate journey of the gout-ridden and irascible squire Matthew Bramble across Britain, who finds himself everywhere surrounded by decadents, pimps, con-men, raucousness and degeneracy - until the arrival of the trusty manservant Humphry Clinker promises to improve his fortunes. Populated with unforgettable grotesques and written with a relish for earthy humour and wordplay, and a ferocious pessimism, Humphry Clinker is Smollett's masterpiece.