Humphry Clinker (Penguin English Library)

Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett

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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 humor and wordplay, and a ferocious pessimism, Humphry Clinker is Smollett’s masterpiece.

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