Humphry Clinker
A 18th Century, Classics, Literature book. A novel is a large diffused picture, comprehending the characters of life, disposed...
Smollett's savage, boisterously funny lambasting of eighteenth-century British society charts the unfortunate journey of the gout-ridden and irascible squire Matthew Bramble accross 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 unforgetable grotesques and written with a relish for earthy humour and wordplay, and a ferocious pessimism, Humphry Clinker is Smollett's masterpiece.
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- Pages: 423 pages
- ISBN: 9780141199320 / 141199326
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truth is, I look upon both candidates in the same light; and should think myself a traitor to the constitution of my country, if I voted for either. If every elector would bring the same consideration home to his conscience, we should not have such reason to exclaim against the venality of p____ts.5 But we are all a pack of venal and corrupted rascals; so lost to all sense of honesty, and all tenderness of character, that, in a little time, I am fully persuaded, nothing will be infamous but virtue and public-spirit. Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of... A novel is a large diffused picture, comprehending the characters of life, disposed in different groups, and exhibited in various attitudes, for the purposes of an uniform plan, and general occurrence, to which every individual figure is subservient. But this plan cannot be executed with propriety, probability, or success, without a principal personage to attract the attention, unite the incidents, unwind the clue of the labyrinth, and at last close the scene, by virtue of his own importance. Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (Second... I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey; through which, in all probability, the water drains in its passage; so that as we drink the decoction of the living bodies at the Pump-room, we swallow the strainings of rotten bones and carcasses at the private bath - I vow to God, the very idea turns my stomach! Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker //
Dudes, I couldn't finish this book. It's interesting. So I was into it 3/4 of the way through. It was amusing and unique, though it had it's dry parts. I was liking it. And then one day I looked at it sitting there on my counter, battered in that way Penguin books tend to get, and I thought: "OH MY GOD IF I READ ANOTHER PAGE OF THAT... Irreverent Georgian humor. I ran into a few instances of values dissonance, but that's to be expected when reading 18th century books. I still enjoyed it. It's mostly made up of humorous sketches tied together by a main story line. Not quite laugh-out-loud, but it made me grin. Fantastic work, a prime travel narrative of the 18th century. Comical bucolic main letter writer Clinker reflects conservative views on urban development during the 18th century. Helpful text for understanding the growth of the city vs. the English country.
