Novel

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle

by Tobias Smollett

Smollett’s second novel, of 1751: the adventures of a proud, spoiled and quick-witted young man on the Grand Tour and in London, among practical jokes, duels and debts. His godfather, Commodore Trunnion, lives ashore in a house kept like a ship. Inside it Smollett printed the Memoirs of a Lady of Quality, the story of a real woman, Lady Vane.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 21 hr 15 min

Where to find it

The Room of Books Within Books

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #4084. In the public domain in the United States.