# Humphry Clinker

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- Book: [Humphry Clinker](https://www.bookquiver.com/tobias-george/humphry-clinker) ([Humphry Clinker.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/tobias-george/humphry-clinker.md))
- Authors: [Tobias George](https://www.bookquiver.com/tobias-george)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4197-439-2
- Published: 2012-05-31
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

With an essay by Harold Bloom. 'What is the society of London, that I should be tempted, for its sake, to mortify my senses, and compound with such uncleanness as my soul abhors?' Smollett's savage, boisterously funny lambasting of eighteenth-century British society charts the unfortunate journey of the gout-ridden and irascible squire Matthew Bramble across Britain, who finds himself everywhere surrounded by decadents, pimps, con-men, raucousness and degeneracy - until the arrival of the trusty manservant Humphry Clinker promises to improve his fortunes. Populated with unforgettable grotesques and written with a relish for earthy humour and wordplay, and a ferocious pessimism, Humphry Clinker is Smollett's masterpiece. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.