Humphry Clinker

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Humphry Clinker

Editorial: Penguin

ISBN: 978-01-4197-439-2

ISBN sin guiones: 9780141974392

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 448

Fecha de publicación: 2012-05-31

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

Humphry Clinker

Editorial: Penguin

ISBN: 978-01-4188-988-7

ISBN sin guiones: 9780141889887

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 496

Fecha de publicación: 2008-09-25

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

Humphry Clinker

Editorial: penguin_classics

ISBN: 978-01-4144-142-9

ISBN sin guiones: 9780141441429

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 496

Fecha de publicación: 2008-09-25

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

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Humphry Clinker

Tobias George

Primera publicación: 2008-09-25

Matthew Bramble, a gout-ridden misanthrope, travels Britain with his nephew, niece, spinster sister and man-servant, the trusty Humphry Clinker. In poor health, Bramble sees the world as one of degeneracy and raucous overcrowding, and will not hesitate to let his companions know his feelings on the matter. Peopled with pimps, drunkards, decadents and con-men, Humphrey Clinker displays Smollett’s ferociously pessimistic view of mankind, and his belief that the luxury of eighteenth-century England existence was the enemy of sense and sobriety. Presented in the form of letters from six very different characters, and full of joyful puns and double entendres, Humphrey Clinker is now recognised as a boisterous and observant masterpiece of English satire. Jeremy Lewis’s introduction examines why Smollett has become an unjustly neglected figure of English literature, and how the time in which he lived became a crucible for his work. This new edition contains notes, a chronology and suggested reading.