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The Adventures of Roderick Random

The Adventures of Roderick Random

Smollett, Tobias
Cruikshank, George

Paperback

Series: Walmer Classics, Book 1

Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0648023389
ISBN13: 9780648023388
Publisher: Wilkins Farago
Published: Jan 25 2019
Pages: 538
Weight: 1.34
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Roderick Random's story is a classic rambunctious tale of rags and riches, set in the mid-eighteenth century.

Roderick's father goes mad soon after he is born, in grief at his beloved wife's death. Roderick is cast into life as a virtual orphan, tumbles through a wild time at school, and ends up, on leaving, escaping to the heaving metropolis of London. There he encounters, with his best friend Strap, characters of a huge variety; card-sharpers, fallen women, bumbling doctors and malicious quacks, and very dubious gentlemen-about-town. He finally goes to sea after an inordinate waiting period spent hazarding the interminable bureaucracy of trying to get a place as a ship's medic. His fortunes rise and fall it seems on the spin of a coin, diving into indigence after being raised to the heights of elegance, time and again. His luck with women is similarly strange-starred and various, until one day he meets the lovely Narcissa Topehall and his heart is given forever.

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