The Adventures of Roderick Random: A Scots Surgeon's Mate at Sea and Ashore
Tobias Smollett
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Thomas Gainsborough, William Hogarth and George Romney. A Scots surgeon's mate is cheated of his inheritance, pressed aboard a man-of-war, and carried through the Cartagena expedition, the London taverns, a French regiment and a debtors' prison. Smollett had served as a naval surgeon's mate at Cartagena himself, and the shipboard chapters were the first honest account of the lower deck in English. He was twenty-seven when he wrote it. Fifty-nine plates, from Hogarth's London to Guardi's Venice, catch the picaresque world of inns, quacks and press gangs that Smollett's hero stumbles through.
Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Thomas Gainsborough, William Hogarth and George Romney. A Scots surgeon's mate is cheated of his inheritance, pressed aboard a man-of-war, and carried through the Cartagena expedition, the London taverns, a French regiment and a debtors' prison...
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Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) was a Scottish novelist and surgeon born in Dunbartonshire. He served aboard a warship in the Caribbean, practised medicine in London, and edited the Critical Review. His works include Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Ferdinand Count Fathom, and Humphry Clinker.
Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) was a Scottish novelist and surgeon born in Dunbartonshire. He served aboard a warship in the Caribbean, practised medicine in London, and edited the Critical Review. His works include Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Ferdinand Count Fathom, and Humphry Clinker.
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