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Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) was a Scottish author, best known for his picaresque novels
Smollett's first novel remains his most accessible. The innocent Roderick, arriving in the London of 1748 with his schoolfellow companion Strap, fights off rogues and villains - Gawky, Crampley, Weasel, Wagtail and Badger among others - becomes a common sailor, falls in love, is captured by smugglers, courts a rich heiress but ends up in prison, and...well, in the end, of course, he re-meets and marries the beautiful Narcissa (Strap marries her maid) and lives happily ever after. Not just one story, but at least half a dozen - and all narrated in an easy, familiar manner quite astonishingly readable after two centuries and more. (Kirkus UK)
