THE ATHENAEUMThe Adventures of Roderick RandomTobias Smollett
Novel
The Adventures of Roderick Random
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textSmollett’s first novel, of 1748: a penniless young Scot goes to London, is pressed into the navy as a surgeon’s mate and sees the disaster at Cartagena in 1741, as Smollett himself had. It is rough, fast and funny, and Dickens loved it. David Copperfield, alone and miserable at Blunderstone, “sustained my own idea of Roderick Random for a month at a stretch.”
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 12 hr 50 min
- Where to find it
- The Room of Books Within Books
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #4085. In the public domain in the United States.