The Adventures of Roderick Random (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Smollett, Tobias

 
9780199552344: The Adventures of Roderick Random (Oxford World's Classics)
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ISBN 10: 0199552347 ISBN 13: 9780199552344
Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2009

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Roderick Random (1748), Smollett's first novel, is full of the dazzling vitality characteristics of all his work, as well as of his own life. Roderick is the boisterous and unprincipled hero who answers life's many misfortunes with a sledgehammer. Left penniless, he leaves his native Scotland for London and on the way meets Strap, and old schoolfellow. Together they undergo many adventures at the hands of scoundrels and rogues. Roderick qualifies as a surgeon's mate and is pressed as a common soldier on bord the man-of-war Thunder. In a tale of romance as well as adventure, Roderick also finds time to fall in love... Smollett drew on his own experiences as a surgeon's mate in the navy for the memorable scenes on board ship, and the novel combines documentary realism with great humour and panache.
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A tale of adventure and romance, it is written with great humour and panache. The memorable scenes on board ship, which provide an invaluable picture of the British sailor of the day, are drawn from Smollett's personal experience as a surgeon's mate in the navy.

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Verlag
Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0199552347
ISBN 13 
9780199552344
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Anzahl der Seiten
528
Herausgeber
Boucé Paul-Gabriel
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