Tobias George Smollett (bapt. 19 March 1721 – 17 September 1771) was a Scottish writer and surgeon. He was best known for writing picaresque novels such...
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Peter Smollett (1912–1980), Austrian-born British journalist and Russian spy Tobias Smollett (1721–1771), Scottish author Captain Alexander Smollett, the...
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The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (category Novels by Tobias Smollett)
Adventures of Peregrine Pickle is a picaresque novel by the Scottish author Tobias Smollett, first published in 1751 and revised and published again in 1758. It...
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The History and Adventures of an Atom (category Novels by Tobias Smollett)
The History and Adventures of an Atom is a novel by Tobias Smollett, first published in 1769. The novel satirises English politics during the Seven Years'...
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about 1885. Another 18th-century translation into English was that of Tobias Smollett, himself a novelist, first published in 1755. Like the Jarvis translation...
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goalkeeper) Tobias Sjokvist (born 1995), Swedish ice hockey player Tobias Smith (English Twitch Streamer) Tobias Smollett (Scottish author) Tobias Steinhauser...
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The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (category Novels by Tobias Smollett)
last of the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett, published in London on 17 June 1771 (three months before Smollett's death), and is considered by many...
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Eritrea as of the early twenty-first century.: 20 Smollett, Tobias (1900). The works of Tobias Smollett, Volume 11. Constable. p. 216. OCLC 646851669. Retrieved...
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Travels Through France and Italy (category Works by Tobias Smollett)
Through France and Italy is a work of travel literature by Tobias Smollett, published in 1766. Smollett used the opportunity to deride the social norms of the...
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London (1963) Calder-Marshall edited and wrote the introduction to: Tobias Smollett (1950) The Bodley Head Jack London (four volumes: 1963–66) Prepare...
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outdoors, but also read voraciously, including the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett and Henry Fielding, as well as Robinson Crusoe and Gil Blas. He read...
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British publication appearing from 1756 to 1817. It was first edited by Tobias Smollett, from 1756 to 1763. Contributors included Samuel Johnson, David Hume...
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return to Florence, a tradition that the Scottish literary traveller Tobias Smollett already noted in 1766, which has kept the snout in a state of polished...
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Locker (i.e. the Sea). An early description of Davy Jones occurs in Tobias Smollett's The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, published in 1751: This same Davy...
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novel satirising Richardson's Pamela, and between Laurence Sterne and Tobias Smollett). Plays were written to make fun of plays or to counter the success...
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violation. Reprisal may also refer to: The Reprisal, a 1757 play by Tobias Smollett Reprisal!, a 1956 American film directed by George Sherman Reprisal...
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The Adventures of Roderick Random (category Novels by Tobias Smollett)
Roderick Random is a picaresque novel by Tobias Smollett, first published in 1748. It is partially based on Smollett's experience as a naval-surgeon's mate...
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Smelfungus (section Smollett in Europe)
satire of Tobias Smollett, himself author of a volume of Travels Through France and Italy, which was published in 1766. Sterne had met Smollett during his...
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Episode 1". BBC. Retrieved 17 July 2016. "BBC Radio 4 - Classic Serial, Tobias Smollett - The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, Episode 1". BBC. Retrieved 30...
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British History Online. University of London. Retrieved 19 January 2020. Tobias Smollett: The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, ed. Lewis M. Knapp and Paul-Gabriel...
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Gibson by Bruce Bedford, 1992 The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett, Classic Serial on BBC Radio 4, 1992 Crisp and Even Brightly by Alick...
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Bailey and hanged, drawn and quartered on 19 January 1661. According to Tobias Smollett, Venner and his followers "affirmed to the last that if they had been...
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Riley's translation is based on the translation by Tobias Smollett, 1776 (op. cit. p. xvii). Smollett, Tobias, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771) London:...
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Works of Tobias Smollett, MD, with Memoirs of his Life and Writings, p. 446–447, at Google Books The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, MD, with...
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tongue into one's cheek once signified contempt. For example, in Tobias Smollett's The Adventures of Roderick Random, which was published in 1748, the...
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Feeling Louis-Sébastien Mercier – L'An 2440, rêve s'il en fut jamais Tobias Smollett – The Expedition of Humphry Clinker Sophie von La Roche – Geschichte...
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Early references to Soup and Bouilli in English are from books by Tobias Smollett. In The Adventures of Roderick Random published in 1748, a meal in...
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Scottish physician and travel author. He also edited the works of Tobias Smollett. He was born on 10 October 1729 in Stirling, the son of Rev Charles...
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March 1 – The first issue of The Critical Review is published, with Tobias Smollett as editor. April–May – Beginning of the Seven Years' War in Europe...
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Athens. In the 18th-century novel The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett one character describes Edinburgh as a "hotbed of genius". Edinburgh...
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