The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. Smollett

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Always visible content "The Expedition of Humphry Clinker" by Tobias Smollett is an epistolary novel ... Clinker" by Tobias Smollett is an epistolary novel published in 1771. Six correspondents—including a gouty Welsh squire, his husband-hunting sister, and their servants—chronicle a journey through England and Scotland's fashionable spa towns and resorts. Through wildly contrasting letters describing the same events, Smollett satirizes eighteenth-century British society, class pretensions, and urban life. The mysterious ostler Humphry Clinker joins their travels, bringing comic misadventures, romantic entanglements, and surprising revelations Hidden checkbox to control the toggle Clickable label to show more The extra text that is initially hidden Clickable label to show less that transform the expedition. (This is an automatically generated summary.)