The Adventures of Roderick Random
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The Adventures of Roderick Random
19.99 €
15.99 €
Roderick Random, the son of a wealthy gentleman and a poor housekeeper, was predicted to become a great traveler, but his life would be full of dangers and hardships. Taking Don Quixote as a basis and turning it inside out in the manner of the roguish Gil Blas, the Scotsman Smollett, a former ship's doctor and participant in a semi-pirate raid to capture Cartagena, endowed his fellow countryman hero with some features of his own stormy biography.
"And taking food in his knapsack" and grabbing a resourceful servant-friend, our Roderick set off on a wandering tour of cities and villages. But what happened to him is a whole book about it. And with pictures by two great illustrators. In the 19th century, every dog knew them (at least in London). Their names: Fiz and Crookshank. They illustrated a lot of Dickens. And Dickens, in turn, listed Smollett's novels among his favorite books. And even two hundred years later, already in the 20th century, George Orwell, speaking about Smollett, called "The Adventures of Roderick Random" and "The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle" real masterpieces.
In the hands of the reader is not just a book from three classics, but a rather rare book. It was last published in our country more than half a century ago, in 1949. Classics do not age and return again and again.
"And taking food in his knapsack" and grabbing a resourceful servant-friend, our Roderick set off on a wandering tour of cities and villages. But what happened to him is a whole book about it. And with pictures by two great illustrators. In the 19th century, every dog knew them (at least in London). Their names: Fiz and Crookshank. They illustrated a lot of Dickens. And Dickens, in turn, listed Smollett's novels among his favorite books. And even two hundred years later, already in the 20th century, George Orwell, speaking about Smollett, called "The Adventures of Roderick Random" and "The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle" real masterpieces.
In the hands of the reader is not just a book from three classics, but a rather rare book. It was last published in our country more than half a century ago, in 1949. Classics do not age and return again and again.
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