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| Book: Paperback | 5.07 x 7.79in | 496 pages | ISBN 9780141441429 | 30 Dec 2008 | Penguin Classic | 18 - AND UP |
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The eighteenth-century picaresque masterpiece— now in a new edition
A triumph of English satire, Humphry Clinker was published just three months prior to its author’s death in 1771. At its heart is Matthew Bramble, a gout-ridden misanthrope who travels Britain with his nephew, niece, spinster sister, and manservant, the trusty Humphry Clinker. In a narrative peopled with pimps, drunkards, and con men, Bramble’s pessimistic views on the world’s degeneracy— and his eagerness to express them—betray the author’s belief that his countrymen were suffering from an acute lack of sense and sobriety. Boisterous and keenly observant, Humphry Clinker is a delicious send-up of eighteenth-century society.
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