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The Adventures of Roderick Random Paperback - 2002
by Smollett, Tobias
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- Title The Adventures of Roderick Random
- Author Smollett, Tobias
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: repri
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 528
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, UK
- Date 12/5/2002
- Bookseller's Inventory # 9780192837165U
- ISBN 9780192837165
Summary
Of all kinds of satire, there is none so entertaining and universally improving, as that which is introduced, as it were occasionally, in the course of an interesting story, which brings every incident home to life, and by representing familiar scenes in an uncommon and amusing point of view, invests them with all the graces of novelty, while nature is appealed to in every particular. The reader gratifies his curiosity in pursuing the adventures of a person in whose favour he is prepossessed; he espouses his cause, he sympathises with him in his distress, his indignation is heated against the authors of his calamity: the humane passions are inflamed; the contrast between dejected virtue and insulting vice appears with greater aggravation, and every impression having a double force on the imagination, the memory retains the circumstance, and the heart improves by the example.
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I was born in the northern part of this united kingdom in the house of my grandfather, a gentleman of considerable fortune and influence, who had on many occasions signalized himself in behalf of his country; and was remarkable for his abilities in the law, which he exercised with great success, in quality of a judge, particularly against beggars, for whom he had a singular aversion.