The Adventures of Roderick Random. [Shakespeare Head Press edition]. 780 COPIES WERE PRINTED
by SMOLLETT Tobias
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- Hardcover
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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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- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 34133
- Title
- The Adventures of Roderick Random. [Shakespeare Head Press edition]. 780 COPIES WERE PRINTED
- Author
- SMOLLETT Tobias
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Shakespeare Head Press,
- Date Published
- 1926
- Keywords
- literature, smollett, tobias smollett, shakespeare head press, roderick random
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