Radical Dr. Smollett: The Recognition of a Long Neglected Novelist

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover, with dust jacket in very good condition.

RADICAL DR. SMOLLETT: The Recognition of a Long Neglected Novelist, Contemporary of Johnson, Fielding and Swift.

Biography and critical study of Tobias Smollett, 1721-1771, a prolific journalist, historian, editor and translator, whose ground-breaking fictional creations helped shape the modern novel.

He was best known for his picaresque novels 'The Adventures of Roderick Random' (1748), ' The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle' (1751), and his epistolary novel and masterpiece 'The Expedition of Humphry Clinker' (1771).