The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (Paperback)

from Sonya_W

There's nothing more endearing to me than a curmudgeonly old fart, and I developed a real soft spot for Smollett's tender-hearted, "risible" misanthrope, Matthew Bramble. I found parts of this epistolary novel a little dry, to be perfectly honest, but every time I was ready to give up entirely, S...

from stephengoldenberg

Not as good as Henry Fielding but if you like Fielding you'll probably like this. Written entirely in letters, typical of 18th century novels, it's fascinating as a travelogue of mid-18th century England and Scotland as well as being very knockabout funny in places. All the eventual coincidences ...

from john257hopper

This is an epistolary novel written in 1771, the year the author died. It was one of a number of 18th century novels which were travelogues with rambling plots and colourful characters in sometimes bizarre situations. For the most part, this worked for me, and much of this is very amusing, though...

from wrk1

A comic look at some of 18th-century England and Scotland. A novel in letters, the voices and personalities of each character are quite distinct and entertaining--an astute and benevolent curmudgeon, an educated young man with good intentions, a love-struck young woman raised in the restrictive E...

from buffalopoet

One of those 'old friend' books that gets read each year - an episodic travel adventure that leaves me both with a smile on my face, and a still-unrequited desire to tour northern England and Scotland. Told in a series of letters (an epistolary novel), we follow the 18th-century version of a summ...