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The Adventures of Roderick Random (Esprios Classics)

The Adventures of Roderick Random (Esprios Classics)

Tobias Smollett

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2024
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Ficción moderna y contemporánea
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9781714600540
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The Adventures of Roderick Random is a picaresque novel by Tobias Smollett, first published in 1748. It is partially based on Smollett’s experience as a naval-surgeon’s mate in the Royal Navy, especially during the Battle of Cartagena de Indias in 1741. In the preface, Smollett acknowledges the connections of his novel to the two satirical picaresque works he translated into English: Cervantes’ Don Quixote and Alain-René Lesage’s Gil Blas. The novel tells the life story (in the first person) of Roderick 'Rory' Random, who was born to a Scottish gentleman and a lower-class woman and is thus shunned by his father’s family.

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