Author: Tobias George Smollett
Publisher: eBookIt.com
ISBN: 1456614061
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2862
Book Description
Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Tobias Smollett The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle The Adventures of Roderick Random The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves The Expedition of Humphry Clinker Travels Through France And Italy
The Essential Tobias Smollett Collection
Author: Tobias George Smollett
Publisher: eBookIt.com
ISBN: 1456614061
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2862
Book Description
Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Tobias Smollett The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle The Adventures of Roderick Random The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves The Expedition of Humphry Clinker Travels Through France And Italy
Publisher: eBookIt.com
ISBN: 1456614061
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2862
Book Description
Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Tobias Smollett The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle The Adventures of Roderick Random The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves The Expedition of Humphry Clinker Travels Through France And Italy
Poems, Plays, and "The Briton"
Author: Tobias Smollett
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820314285
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
The poems, plays, and political writings included in this volume are essential to an understanding of Tobias Smollett and the literary and social currents of eighteenth-century England. In introductions to the separate sections of the volume, Byron Gassman identifies the circumstances that prompted Smollett to undertake these writings, traces the history of their publication and reception, and provides extensive explanations of historical and literary allusions. The poems in the volume represent Smollett's entire achievement as a poet. Among the shorter poems are "A New Song," his first printed work; "The Tears of Scotland," an early expression of his defiant spirit; and the popular "Ode to Independence," written during the last decade of his life. Two longer works, "Advice" (1746) and its sequel, "Reproof" (1747), are satires written in Popean heroic couplets; they mark the beginnings of Smollett's attacks on theater managers, corrupt politicians, iniquitous military leaders, and other well-known personalities of the day. An appendix to this volume includes five additional poems assigned but not definitely attributed to Smollett. The Reprisal; or The Tars of Old England and The Regicide are the only extant plays by Smollett. The Regicide, written when the author was only eighteen or nineteen, dramatizes the story of the murder of James I of Scotland. The Reprisal, a patriotic comedy performed as an afterpiece at the Theatre Royal, was a moderate theatrical success. Smollett's political writings for The Briton, a weekly journal he established in 1762 for defending the policies of the Earl of Bute, mark a particularly painful period in the author's life. A paper war erupted with the first number, and Smollett and Bute became the objects of scathing counterattacks, particularly in the writings of John Wilkes. This volume brings together for the first time all issues of The Briton and also includes a key identifying the weekly's numerous elliptical references to persons and places.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820314285
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
The poems, plays, and political writings included in this volume are essential to an understanding of Tobias Smollett and the literary and social currents of eighteenth-century England. In introductions to the separate sections of the volume, Byron Gassman identifies the circumstances that prompted Smollett to undertake these writings, traces the history of their publication and reception, and provides extensive explanations of historical and literary allusions. The poems in the volume represent Smollett's entire achievement as a poet. Among the shorter poems are "A New Song," his first printed work; "The Tears of Scotland," an early expression of his defiant spirit; and the popular "Ode to Independence," written during the last decade of his life. Two longer works, "Advice" (1746) and its sequel, "Reproof" (1747), are satires written in Popean heroic couplets; they mark the beginnings of Smollett's attacks on theater managers, corrupt politicians, iniquitous military leaders, and other well-known personalities of the day. An appendix to this volume includes five additional poems assigned but not definitely attributed to Smollett. The Reprisal; or The Tars of Old England and The Regicide are the only extant plays by Smollett. The Regicide, written when the author was only eighteen or nineteen, dramatizes the story of the murder of James I of Scotland. The Reprisal, a patriotic comedy performed as an afterpiece at the Theatre Royal, was a moderate theatrical success. Smollett's political writings for The Briton, a weekly journal he established in 1762 for defending the policies of the Earl of Bute, mark a particularly painful period in the author's life. A paper war erupted with the first number, and Smollett and Bute became the objects of scathing counterattacks, particularly in the writings of John Wilkes. This volume brings together for the first time all issues of The Briton and also includes a key identifying the weekly's numerous elliptical references to persons and places.
Tobias Smollett in the Enlightenment
Author: Richard J. Jones
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611480485
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) is best known today as a novelist, but in the eighteenth-century, he was regarded as a historian and critic. In this book, Richard J. Jones explores the diversity of Smollett's journalistic and literary writings and establishes new connections between Smollett's work and writers of the Scottish Enlightenment. The book takes as its focal point Smollett's visit to Nice, between 1763 and 1765, and the account he wrote of it in Travels through France and Italy (1766). This account is usually seen as a "travel narrative" but Jones argues that it should be read as a "pocket encyclopedia" in the tradition of Voltaire. Jones divides his study into sections on medicine, fine art, the theater and history. In doing so, he offers a productive juxtaposition of authors, texts and contexts, presenting Smollett as a writer whose Scottish (and particularly Glaswegian) identity informed his involvement in a wider European Enlightenment.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611480485
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) is best known today as a novelist, but in the eighteenth-century, he was regarded as a historian and critic. In this book, Richard J. Jones explores the diversity of Smollett's journalistic and literary writings and establishes new connections between Smollett's work and writers of the Scottish Enlightenment. The book takes as its focal point Smollett's visit to Nice, between 1763 and 1765, and the account he wrote of it in Travels through France and Italy (1766). This account is usually seen as a "travel narrative" but Jones argues that it should be read as a "pocket encyclopedia" in the tradition of Voltaire. Jones divides his study into sections on medicine, fine art, the theater and history. In doing so, he offers a productive juxtaposition of authors, texts and contexts, presenting Smollett as a writer whose Scottish (and particularly Glaswegian) identity informed his involvement in a wider European Enlightenment.
Don Quixote
Author: Cervantes
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1603841156
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
James Montgomery's new translation of Don Quixote is the fourth already in the twenty-first century, and it stands with the best of them. It pays particular attention to what may be the hardest aspect of Cervantes's novel to render into English: the humorous passages, particularly those that feature a comic and original use of language. Cervantes would be proud. --Howard Mancing, Professor of Spanish, Purdue University and Vice President, Cervantes Society of America
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1603841156
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
James Montgomery's new translation of Don Quixote is the fourth already in the twenty-first century, and it stands with the best of them. It pays particular attention to what may be the hardest aspect of Cervantes's novel to render into English: the humorous passages, particularly those that feature a comic and original use of language. Cervantes would be proud. --Howard Mancing, Professor of Spanish, Purdue University and Vice President, Cervantes Society of America
Catalogue of the Very Important Collection of Rare Americana and Fine Engravings Formed by the Late Edwin Babcock Holden
Author: Edwin Babcock Holden
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 854
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 854
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The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Author: Tobias Smollett
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 566
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 566
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The Works of Tobias Smollett: Roderick Random, 1895-1900
Author: Tobias Smollett
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Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Pages : 228
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An Essay on the External Use of Water
Author: Tobias Smollett
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Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
Author: Tobias Smollett
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Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Travels Through France and Italy
Author: Tobias Smollett
Publisher: NuVision Publications, LLC
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Publisher: NuVision Publications, LLC
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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