THE ADVENTURES OF RODERICK RANDOM
by SMOLLETT TOBIAS:
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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BAKEWELL, Derbyshire, United Kingdom
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Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Hawkridge Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28430
- Title
- THE ADVENTURES OF RODERICK RANDOM
- Author
- SMOLLETT TOBIAS:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- THE FOLIO SOCIETY. LONDON. 1961
- Keywords
- FOLIO SOCIETY
- Bookseller catalogs
- FOLIO SOCIETY;
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- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...