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Takes a look at issues raised not only in Smollett's novels, for which he is usually remembered, but also in other works of this prolific Scottish author.

William Thackeray called it "the most laughable story that has ever been written since the goodly art of novel-writing began.

Relates the mischievous experiences of Peregrine Pickle, an arrogant young man of eighteenth-century England