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Tobias Smollett

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Born: March 18 1721

Died: 1616 09 17711771

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 Anne Lascelles, in Jamaica, 1747,and settled in England. In London, as a writer, he became successful. The Adventures of Roderick Random , 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 caused financial difficulties for him. Publishing The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves 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 gravesite.

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Books from Tobias Smollett

The Adventures of Roderick Random

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom

The History of England in Three Volumes, Volume II:. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II

Travels Through France and Italy

The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves

The History and Adventures of an Atom

Delphi Complete Works of Tobias Smollett (Illustrated)

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, Volume 2 [Easyread Large Edition]

Classic British Literature: 5 novels and 1 book of travel by Smollett, in a single file, with active table of contents

VOLTAIRE'S ROMANCES: 20+ Novels, Short Stories, Satires & Fables (Illustrated): Candide, Zadig, The Huron, Plato's Dream, Micromegas, The White Bull, The ... Faith and Fable, The Study of Nature…

Classic Picaresque Novels

The History of England: Designed as a Continuation of Hume, Vol. XI(1)

Characters from David Hume: With the Life of Hume [written by Himself Intitled: My Own Life, Character of Alfred the Great of William, the Conqueror, of William Rufus, of Henry I, of Stephen, ...]

The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, M. D.: The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves. Travels Through France and Italy

Travels Through France and Italy (A Classic illustrated Edition)

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

Travels Through France And Italy: Illustrated Edition

The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, M. D, Vol. 5 of 6: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings; Containing the Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves, and Travels Through France and Italy (Classic Reprint)