Books in the The Works of Tobias Smollett series

Smollett's translation of Gil Blas remains true to its style, spirit, and ideas, chronicling a merry, philosophical young man whose adventures lead him into all levels of society from the highest to the lowest. After two and a half centuries, his remains the finest translation of this humorous, satiric, and classic French novel.

This is the definitive scholarly edition of Smollett's first novel, widely regarded as a masterpiece and a chief rival to Henry Fielding's comic novel Tom Jones. Surging with verbal, sexual, and martial energy, The Adventures of Roderick Random opens a window on life, love, and war in the eighteenth century.