The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves

The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves

by Tobias Smollett
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 19/09/2017

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The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves, a novel by Tobias Smollett, was published in 1760 in the monthly paper The British Magazine. Its first number, published in January, 1760, contained the first installment of Smollett’s fourth novel. The novel, Smollett's shortest, differs stylistically from his previous works.


Sir Launcelot is virtuous and strange, and he is surrounded by a Smollettian menagerie whose various jargons are part of this novel's linguistic virtuosity and satire. He is an eighteenth-century gentleman who rides about the country in armour, attended by his comic squire, Timothy Crabshaw, redressing grievances. These characters are obviously inspired by Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, and Smollett's novel has been compared unfavorably with Cervantes'.

ISBN:
1230001906998
1230001906998
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
19-09-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
EnvikaBook
Tobias Smollett

Tobias Smollett (1721 - 71) was a Scottish poet and novelist famed for his picaresque novels The Adventures of Roderick Random, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker.

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