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Tobias Smollett

Born

in Dalquhurn House, Cardross, Dunbartonshire, Scotland

March 19, 1721

Died

September 17, 1771

Genre

Fiction, Travel, History

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Tobias George Smollett was born in Dalquhurn, now part of Renton, Scotland, to a prosperous family and educated at the University of Glasgow, where he studied to be a physician. Later he joined the British Royal Navy as a surgeon's mate. He was present at the disastrous battle against the Spanish at Cartagena in 1741.

He married a British woman named Anne " Nancy" Lascelles, in Jamaica, 1747,and settled in England. In London, as a writer, he became successful. The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748), a picaresque novel - like most of his books - made him a well known author. It was followed by The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle in 1751. But the failure of The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom (1753) caused financial difficulties for him. ...more

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	The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 3.43 avg rating — 3,521 ratings — published 1771 — 59 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett, David Blewett 3.48 avg rating — 1,283 ratings — published 1748 — 699 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 3.41 avg rating — 775 ratings — published 1751 — 187 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Travels Through France and Italy by Tobias Smollett, Osbert Sitwell (Introduction) 3.62 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 1766 — 194 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom by Tobias Smollett, Paul-Gabriel Boucé (Editor) 3.32 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 1753 — 351 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The History of England in Three Volumes, Volume II: continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II 3.54 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves by Tobias Smollett, Peter Wagner 3.27 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1762 — 183 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Adventures of Roderick Random, Volume 1 3.68 avg rating — 19 ratings — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Complete Works of Tobias Smollett 3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1824 — 115 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The History and Adventures of an Atom 3.06 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1769 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Some men are wise and some are otherwise.”
― Tobias George Smollett, Roderick Random

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“The capital is become an overgrown monster; which like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support.”
― Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

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“What passes for wine among us, is not the juice of the grape. It is an adulterous mixture, brewed up of nauseous ingredients, by dunces, who are bunglers in the art of poison-making; and yet we, and our forefathers, are and have been poisoned by this cursed drench, without taste or flavour—The only genuine and wholesome beveridge in England, is London porter, and Dorchester table-beer; but as for your ale and your gin, your cyder and your perry, and all the trashy family of made wines, I detest them as infernal compositions, contrived for the destruction of the human species.”
― Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, 378 pages, 1893

78 votes, 39.0%

Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov, 586 pages, 1859

29 votes, 14.5%

The Elder Edda by Unknown, 384 pages, 1270

28 votes, 14.0%

The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 1: The Golden Days by Cao Xueqin, 542 pages, 1790

20 votes, 10.0%

Selected Essays of Michel de Montaigne by Michel de Montaigne, 224 pages 1580

18 votes, 9.0%

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia by Samuel JohnsonSamuel, 224 pages, 1759

15 votes, 7.5%

The Adventures of Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett, 476 pages, 1748

12 votes, 6.0%

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