| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle -- Notes to the Text -- Textual Commentary -- List of Emendations -- Word-Division -- Historical Collation -- Bibliographical Descriptions -- Index |
| Summary |
This picaresque tale, first published in 1751, was Tobias Smollett's second novel. Following the fortunes and misfortunes of the egotistical dandy Peregrine Pickle, the novel is written as a series of brief adventures with every chapter typically describing a new escapade. The novel begins with Peregrine as a young country gentleman. His mother rejects him, as do his aloof father and his dissolute, spiteful brother. Commodore Hawser Trunnion takes Peregrine under his care and raises him. Peregrine's upbringing, education at Oxford, and journey to France, his debauchery, bankruptcy, jailing, an |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Adventure stories -- Fiction
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1306117615 |
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9781306117616 |
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