Travels Through France and Italy

by Tobias Smollett

Overview

Travelogue by one of the most popular novelists of the 18th century. The Introduction begins: "Many pens have been burnished this year of grace for the purpose of celebrating with befitting honour the second centenary of the birth of Henry Fielding; but it is more than doubtful if, when the right date occurs in March 1921, anything like the same

Product Details

BN ID:	2940000750100
Publisher:	B&R Samizdat Express
Publication date:	07/06/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	346 KB

About the Author

Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) was a Scottish author best known for his novels The Adventures of Roderick Random and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, following which he became a major literary figure associated with the likes of David Garrick, Laurence Sterne, Charles Dickens and Samuel Johnson. In 1755 he published the standard translation of Cervantes’ Don Quixote, and in 1756, he became editor of The Critical Review. His major nonfiction work was A Complete History of England.