The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (Rinehart Editions)
by Tobias George Smollett (Author); Robert Gorham Davis (Edited with an Introduction by)
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- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0030082609
- ISBN 13
- 9780030082603
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About This Item
San Francisco, CA: Rinehart Editions/Rinehart Press, 1950. Rinehart Editions . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall. 413 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Slight damage to top of fore edge. Light foxing on page edges.
Synopsis
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker was the last of the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett, and is considered by many to be his best and funniest work. Published in London on 17 June 1771, it is an epistolary novel, presented in the form of letters written by six different characters: Matthew Bramble, a Welsh Squire; his sister Tabitha; their niece and nephew, Jery and Lydia Melford; Tabitha's maid Winifred Jenkins; and Lydia's suitor, Wilson.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (Rinehart Editions)
- Author
- Tobias George Smollett (Author); Robert Gorham Davis (Edited with an Introduction by)
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Rinehart Editions
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0030082609
- ISBN 13
- 9780030082603
- Publisher
- Rinehart Editions/Rinehart Press
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco, CA
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- Literary Studies, English Literature
- Size
- 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall
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