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The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

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    T. Smollett's The Expedition of Humphry Clinker is a historical fiction novel. Key subjects include travelers and Great Britain.

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    About The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

    "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.
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    • Epistolary fiction
    • Travelers
    • Great Britain

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    The Expedition of Humphry Clinker was written by T. Smollett.

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