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The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves Tobias Smollett

The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves By Tobias Smollett

The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves by Tobias Smollett


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Driven into a "love melancholy" by the apparent loss of fair Aurelia Darnel, Smollett's noble knight embarks on a series of philanthropic adventures in which, Hamlet-like, his mask of lunacy acts to point up the madness of English society, corrupted by cynicism and greed.

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In which certain personages of this delightful history are introduced to the reader's acquaintance; in which the hero of these adventures makes his first appearance on the stage of action; which the reader, on perusal, may wish were chapter the last; in which it appears that the knight, when heartily set in for sleeping, was not easily disturbed; in which this recapitulation draws to a close; in which the reader will perceive that in some cases madness is catching; in which the knight resumes his importance; which is within a hair's breadth of proving highly interesting; which may serve to shew, that true patriotism is of no party; which sheweth that he who plays at bowls, will sometimes meet with rubbers; description of a modern magistrate; which shews there are more ways to kill a dog than hanging; in which our knight is tantalized with a transient glimpse of felicity; which shews, that a man cannot always sip, when the cup is at his lip; exhibiting an interview, which, it is to be hoped, will interest the curiosity of the reader; which, it is to be hoped, the reader will find an agreeable medley of mirth and madness, sense and absurdity; containing adventures of chivalry, equally new and surprising; in which the rays of chivalry shine with renovated lustre; discomfiture of the knight of the Griffin; in which our hero descends into the mansions of the damned; containing further anecdotes relating to the children of wretchedness; in which Captain Crowe is sublimed into the regions of astrology; in which the clouds that cover the catastrophe begin to disperse; the knot that puzzles human wisdom, the hand of fortune sometimes will untie familiar as her garter; chapter the last which, it is to be hoped, will be, on more accounts than one, agreeable to the reader.

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GOR003528233
9780140433067
0140433066
The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves by Tobias Smollett
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
1988-05-26
272
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