Tobias Smollett by Jeremy Lewis - 9780571254194

Tobias SmollettAuthor(s): Jeremy Lewis\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom\nImprint: Faber & Faber\nISBN-13: 9780571254194, 978-0571254194\nSynopsis\nTobias Smollett was a prodigious wordsmith. Grub Street was his habitat and hack work his staple, but, as Jeremy Lewis vividly makes clear in this biography, the first for nearly sixty years, there was much more to Smollett than that.. His own life seems almost as eventful and picaresque as one of his novels. Born in Scotland, apprenticed to a surgeon, he came to London to make his fortune. He failed. He served as a surgeon's mate in the West India Squadron and was present at the disastrous attack on Cartagena. He lived in Jamaica for a while, where he married. He returned to London and practised unsuccessfully as a physician. His first novel, The Adventures of Roderick Random was published in 1748. He was editor of the Critical Review and The Briton. His violent political, literary and personal partisar