Author: Lewis MelvillePublisher:
ISBN: 9781258940034
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1927 edition.
The Life and Letters of Tobias Smollett, 1721-1771
Author: Lewis MelvillePublisher:
ISBN: 9781258940034
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1927 edition.
The Life and Letters of Tobias Smollett 1721-1771
Author: Lewis MelvillePublisher:
ISBN: 9781436679022
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Poems, Plays, and "The Briton"
Author: Tobias SmollettPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820314285
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
The poems, plays, and political writings included in this volume are essential to an understanding of Tobias Smollett and the literary and social currents of eighteenth-century England. In introductions to the separate sections of the volume, Byron Gassman identifies the circumstances that prompted Smollett to undertake these writings, traces the history of their publication and reception, and provides extensive explanations of historical and literary allusions. The poems in the volume represent Smollett's entire achievement as a poet. Among the shorter poems are "A New Song," his first printed work; "The Tears of Scotland," an early expression of his defiant spirit; and the popular "Ode to Independence," written during the last decade of his life. Two longer works, "Advice" (1746) and its sequel, "Reproof" (1747), are satires written in Popean heroic couplets; they mark the beginnings of Smollett's attacks on theater managers, corrupt politicians, iniquitous military leaders, and other well-known personalities of the day. An appendix to this volume includes five additional poems assigned but not definitely attributed to Smollett. The Reprisal; or The Tars of Old England and The Regicide are the only extant plays by Smollett. The Regicide, written when the author was only eighteen or nineteen, dramatizes the story of the murder of James I of Scotland. The Reprisal, a patriotic comedy performed as an afterpiece at the Theatre Royal, was a moderate theatrical success. Smollett's political writings for The Briton, a weekly journal he established in 1762 for defending the policies of the Earl of Bute, mark a particularly painful period in the author's life. A paper war erupted with the first number, and Smollett and Bute became the objects of scathing counterattacks, particularly in the writings of John Wilkes. This volume brings together for the first time all issues of The Briton and also includes a key identifying the weekly's numerous elliptical references to persons and places.
The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
Author: Tobias SmollettThe Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Author: Tobias SmollettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
Author: Tobias SmollettAn Essay on the External Use of Water
Author: Tobias SmollettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The Bookman's Manual
Author: Bessie GrahamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
The Adventures of Roderick Random (Esprios Classics)
Author: Tobias SmollettPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1716126584
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Author: Tobias Smollett