Complete Works of Tobias Smollett

by Tobias Smollett

Revered by Dickens and Sir Walter Scott, Tobias Smollett is a writer seldom read nowadays, although he is responsible for some of the greatest literary works of the Eighteenth-Century. This comprehensive eBook offers Smollett's complete fictional works, with rare texts, beautiful illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material.

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Smollett's life and works
* Concise introductions to the novels and other works
* Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* The complete novels, including rare works like THE HISTORY AND ADVENTURES OF AN ATOM, first time in digital print
* All of the major novels are fully illustrated with their original artwork
* Includes Smollett's poetry, plays and translations
* Features two biographies, including Sir Walter Scott’s seminal biographical study - explore Smollett's literary life!
* Almost the complete non-fiction works
* NCX toc feature allowing readers to skip to the next or previous chapter, poem or book easily using the Kindle's 5-way controller
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres

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The Novels
THE ADVENTURES OF RODERICK RANDOM
THE ADVENTURES OF PEREGRINE PICKLE
THE ADVENTURES OF FERDINAND COUNT FATHOM
THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF SIR LAUNCELOT GREAVES
THE HISTORY AND ADVENTURES OF AN ATOM
THE EXPEDITION OF HUMPHRY CLINKER

The Translations
GIL BLAS
CANDIDE

The Plays
THE REGICIDE
THE REPRISAL

The Poetry
ADVICE
REPROOF
MINOR POEMS

The Non-Fiction
CONTINUATION OF A COMPLETE HISTORY OF VOLUME II
TRAVELS THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY
NARRATIVE OF THE BASE AND INHUMAN ARTS THAT WERE LATELY PRACTISED UPON THE BRAIN OF HABBAKKUK HILDING
THE EXPEDITION AGAINST CARTHAGENA
SMOLLETT’S DYING PREDICTION

The Biography
THE LIFE OF TOBIAS SMOLLETT by George Gillfillan

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Genres: Classics

7574 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1824

About the author

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. Publishing The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves (1762) didn't help.

Writing poems, plays, travel and history books, essays, satires, doing translations and even becoming a literary critic and magazine editor, Dr. Smollett struggled all his short life against poverty, he traveled to Italy, to regain his health, but died of tuberculosis near Livorno, in 1771. Ironically finishing his masterpiece, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, a few months before his death.

Charles Dickens was a great admirer of Tobias Smollett, even visiting his grave site.