The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
This picaresque tale, first published in 1751, was Tobias Smollett's second novel. Following the fortunes and misfortunes of the egotistical dandy Peregrine Pickle, the novel is written as a series of brief adventures with every chapter typically describing a new escapade. The novel begins with Peregrine as a young country gentleman. His mother rejects him, as do his aloof father and his dissolute, spiteful brother. Commodore Hawser Trunnion takes Peregrine under his care and raises him. Peregrine's upbringing, education at Oxford, and journey to France, his debauchery, bankruptcy, jailing, and succession to his father's fortune, and his fina…
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Weitere Autoren: Pettit, Alexander (Hrsg.) / Stefanson, D. H. (Hrsg.) / Rousseau, George S. (Hrsg.) / Keathley, Hank (Hrsg.) / Zomchick, John P. (Hrsg.) / Brack, O M (Hrsg.) / Keithley, W. H. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8203-4658-8
- EAN: 9780820346588
- Produktnummer: 22405844
- Verlag: Templar
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 992 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 11'596 KB
- Abbildungen: 34 b&w illus.
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Tobias SmollettEdited by John P. Zomchick and George S. RousseauText edited by O M Brack Jr. and W. H. Keithley
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