Roderick Random

Smollett, Tobias

ISBN 10: 046001790X / ISBN 13: 9780460017909

Edité par J M Dent & Sons, London, 1975

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Light cover corner creases, some shelf and edge wear with some cover scuffing and split to fore edge of base of spine, inside covers lightly edge toned, slight foxing to edges of reading block. Ink stamp with previous owner name and details of a college of University of London to both front and rear endpaper. ; Later printing of Everyman mass market edition, January 1975. Nice tight copy. Cover artwork by Brian Wildsmith. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; Everyman Paperbacks; Vol. 1790; 448 pages; The story of an orphaned boy in eighteenth-century England who serves as a surgeon's mate in the Royal Navy and later attempts to establish himself as a wealthy gentleman by marrying a woman of wealth. In part based on the author's own experiences in the Navy. Mass Market PB.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Roderick Random
• Éditeur: J M Dent & Sons, London
• Date de parution: 1975
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 046001790X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780460017909
• Reliure: Paperback
• Édition: Reprint.
• État de l'article: Very Good

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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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