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The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

T. Smollett (1721–1771)

74 chapters and parts · about 12 hours to read

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What the book is about

"The Expedition of Humphry Clinker" by Tobias Smollett is an epistolary novel published in 1771. Six correspondents—including a gouty Welsh squire, his husband-hunting sister, and their servants—chronicle a journey through England and Scotland's fashionable spa towns and resorts. Through wildly contrasting letters describing the same events, Smollett satirizes eighteenth-century British society, class pretensions, and urban life. The mysterious ostler Humphry Clinker joins their travels, bringing comic misadventures, romantic entanglements, and surprising revelations that transform the expedition.

This summary comes from the Project Gutenberg catalogue, where it was written automatically.

  • Epistolary fiction
  • Great Britain
  • Travelers

Chapters

  1. Respected Sir,about 3 minutes
  2. Sir,about 3 minutes
  3. Doctor,about 2 minutes
  4. Mrs Gwillim,about 1 minute
  5. Dear Molly,about 2 minutes
  6. Dear Phillips,about 3 minutes
  7. Dear Madam,about 2 minutes
  8. My Dearest Letty,about 3 minutes
  9. Dear Lewis,about 11 minutes
  10. Dear Phillips,about 9 minutes
  11. Dear Knight,about 10 minutes
  12. My Dear Letty,about 4 minutes
  13. Dear Phillips,about 32 minutes
  14. Dear Molly Jones,about 7 minutes
  15. Dear Dick,about 6 minutes
  16. Dear Knight,about 12 minutes
  17. Dear Lewis,about 8 minutes
  18. My Dear Letty,about 19 minutes
  19. Dear Phillips,about 8 minutes
  20. Dear Molly,about 11 minutes
  21. Dear Dick,about 5 minutes
  22. Docter Lews,about 2 minutes
  23. Dear Phillips,about 16 minutes
  24. Dear Doctor,about 8 minutes
  25. My Dear Letty,about 9 minutes
  26. Dear Phillips,about 26 minutes
  27. Dear Mary Jones,about 5 minutes
  28. Dear Wat,about 16 minutes
  29. Dear Lewisabout 12 minutes
  30. Dear Phillips,about 22 minutes
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  1. My Dear Letty,about 5 minutes
  2. Dear Phillips,about 12 minutes
  3. Dear Lewis,about 3 minutes
  4. ‘Dear Sir,about 8 minutes
  5. Dear Wat,about 17 minutes
  6. Dear Mary,about 4 minutes
  7. Dear Phillips,about 6 minutes
  8. ‘Sir,about 5 minutes
  9. Dear Doctor,about 23 minutes
  10. Dear Knight,about 26 minutes
  11. Dear Wat,about 13 minutes
  12. Dear Phillips,about 23 minutes
  13. Dear Doctor,about 13 minutes
  14. Dear Wat,about 17 minutes
  15. Dear Lewis,about 8 minutes
  16. Dear Mary,about 4 minutes
  17. Dear Phillips,about 31 minutes
  18. Dear Knight,about 18 minutes
  19. Dear Dick,about 12 minutes
  20. Ode to Leven-Waterabout 1 minute
  21. Dear Doctor,about 16 minutes
  22. My Dearest Letty,about 5 minutes
  23. Dear Mary,about 4 minutes
  24. Dear Knight,about 13 minutes
  25. Dear Doctor,about 12 minutes
  26. Mrs Gwyllim,about 2 minutes
  27. Dear Lewis,about 13 minutes
  28. Dear Wat,about 9 minutes
  29. Dear Dick,about 27 minutes
  30. Dear Knight,about 18 minutes
  31. Dear Mary Jones,about 3 minutes
  32. My Dear Letty,about 5 minutes
  33. Dear Watkin,about 6 minutes
  34. Dear Phillips,about 17 minutes
  35. Dear Dick,about 24 minutes
  36. Dear Wat,about 6 minutes
  37. My Dear, Dear Letty,about 4 minutes
  38. Dear Madam,about 2 minutes
  39. O Mary Jones! Mary Jones!about 4 minutes
  40. Dear Dick,about 14 minutes
  41. Dear Knight,about 9 minutes
  42. Dear Doctor,about 3 minutes
  43. Good Mrs Gwyllim,about 1 minute
  44. Mrs Jones,about 2 minutes

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, by T. Smollett, is in the public domain in the United States. Text from Project Gutenberg, eBook #2160, with thanks. Sureno removed Project Gutenberg's header and licence and set the text in large print; this is not an official Project Gutenberg edition. Outside the United States, check your own country's copyright rules before copying it.

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