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The Adventures of Roderick Random. By: Tobias Smollett. / is a picaresque NOVEL / with illustrations

The Adventures of Roderick Random. By: Tobias Smollett. / is a picaresque NOVEL / with illustrations

Smollett, Tobias

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ISBN10: 1975933796
ISBN13: 9781975933791
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 30 2017
Pages: 292
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.61 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
The Adventures of Roderick Random is a picaresque novel by Tobias Smollett, first published in 1748. It is partially based on Smollett's experience as a naval-surgeon's mate in the British Navy, especially during the Battle of Cartagena de Indias in 1741.The novel is set in the 1730s and 1740s and tells the life story (in the first person) of Roderick Rory Random, who was born to a Scottish gentleman and a lower-class woman and is thus shunned by his father's family. His mother dies soon after giving birth and his father is driven mad with grief. Random's paternal grandfather coerces a local school master into providing free education for the boy, who becomes popular with his classmates (some of whom he encounters again in subsequent adventures) and learns Latin, French, Italian and ancient Greek.

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