The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

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This book offers a fascinating picture of eighteenth-century society. Tough splenetic and widely experienced of all the great novelists of his time Tobias Smollett is the one who registered best the bawdy brutal side of the eighteenth-century life. Towards the end of his life however he grew mellower and "Humphrey Clinker" (1771) is a tale of high good humour. Squire Bramble's picaresque tour of the Britain of George III has enough eccentric characters and comic adventures for several lifetimes and a wealth of local colour.