Roderick Random - Couverture rigide

Smollett, Tobias

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0460007904 ISBN 13 : 9780460007900

Editeur : Dutton Books, 1958

Synopsis

Book by Smollett Tobias

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Présentation de l'éditeur

A vhich he is involved, I persuade myself that the judicious will not only perceive the necessity of describing those situations to which he must of course be confined, in his low estate, but also find entertainment in viewing those parts of life, where the humours and passions are undisguised by affectation, ceremony, or education ;and the whimsical peculiarities of disposition appear as nature has implanted them. But I believe I need not trouble myself in vindicating a practice authorized by the best writers in this way, some of whom I have already named. Vvery intelligent reader will, at first sight, porceive I have not deviated from nature in the facts, which are all true in the main, although the circumstances are altered and disguised, to avoid personal satire. It now remains to give my reasons for making the chief xorsonage of this work a North Briton, which are chiefiy these :I could, at a small expense, bestow on him such education as I thought the dignity of his birth and character required, which could not possibly be obtained in England, by such slender means as the nature of my plan would aflbrd. In the next place, I could represent simplicity of manners in a remote part of the kingdom, with more propriety than in any place near the capital ;and lastly, the disposition of the Scots, addicted to travelling, justifies my conduct in deriving an adventurer from that country. That the delicate reader may not be offended at the unmeaning oaths which proceed from the mouths of some persons in these memoirs, I beg leave to premise, that I imagined nothing could more effectually expose the absurdity of such miserable expletives, than a natural and verbal representation of the discourse in which they occur. APOLOGUE. A YOTTNG painter, indulging a vein of pleasantry, sketched a kind of conversation piece, representing a bear, an owl, a monkey, and an ass;
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dutton Books
• Date d'édition: 1958
• ISBN 10: 0460007904
• ISBN 13: 9780460007900
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 448
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible