Peregrine Pickle & Humphry Clinker / Tobias Smollett / Oxford 1964, 1966 HC DJ
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Lot of two Tobias Smollett titles in the Oxford English Novels series. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle in which are included Memoirs of a Lady of Quality. Tobias Smollett (author), Edited with an introduction by James L. Clifford Oxford University Press, 1964 Hardcover: orange cloth with ink/gilt titling to spine. Notes. Dust jacket. Ex collection of a university professor. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751) is a picaresque novel, combining episodic adventures, satire, and moral reflection. Within this work, "A Memoir of a Lady of Quality" functions as a nested narrative, presenting the life story of a distinguished lady as told by various characters. Smollett uses this insert to explore themes of social ambition, virtue, and the precarious position of women in 18th-century society. The Expedition of Henry Clinker Tobias Smollett (author), Edited with an introduction by Lewis M. Knapp Oxford University Press, 1966 Hardcover: orange cloth with ink/gilt titling to spine. Notes. Dustjacket. Frontispiece map. Ex collection of a university professor. Written as the letters of the five members of Squire Bramble's household sent as they journey around Britain, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker is a grouchy, very funny examination of how one story varies depending on who's doing the telling. The tale is centered around the arrival of Mr. Clinker into the otherwise uneventful household, who never speaks and does not even enter the novel until a third of the way through. In s
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Year: 1964
- Binding: Hardcover
- Condition: Very Good
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