The Adventures of Roderick Random, Folio Society
by Smollett, Tobias
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- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
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Devizes, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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Synopsis
Of all kinds of satire, there is none so entertaining and universally improving, as that which is introduced, as it were occasionally, in the course of an interesting story, which brings every incident home to life, and by representing familiar scenes in an uncommon and amusing point of view, invests them with all the graces of novelty, while nature is appealed to in every particular. The reader gratifies his curiosity in pursuing the adventures of a person in whose favour he is prepossessed; he espouses his cause, he sympathises with him in his distress, his indignation is heated against the authors of his calamity: the humane passions are inflamed; the contrast between dejected virtue and insulting vice appears with greater aggravation, and every impression having a double force on the imagination, the memory retains the circumstance, and the heart improves by the example.
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- Bookseller
- M Godding Books Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 239437
- Title
- The Adventures of Roderick Random, Folio Society
- Author
- Smollett, Tobias
- Illustrator
- Frank Martin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Folio Society
- Date Published
- 1961-01-01
- Size
- 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo)
- Weight
- 1.63 lbs
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- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Octavo
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...