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Roderick Ransom Peregrine Pickle Ferdinand Count Fathom Humphry Clinker and Travels Through France - cover

Roderick Ransom Peregrine Pickle Ferdinand Count Fathom Humphry Clinker and Travels Through France

Tobias Smollett

Publisher: Seltzer Books

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This file includes Roderick Ransom, Peregrine Picke, Ferdinand Count Father, Sir Lancelot Greaves, Travels through France and Italy, and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker. "According to Wikipedia: "Tobias George Smollett (bapt. 19 March 1721 - 17 September 1771) was a Scottish author, best known for his picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1753)." Smollett was one of David Copperfield's (Charles Dickens') favorite authors.
Available since: 03/01/2018.

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