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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Tobias Smollett
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(1721–71) Scottish author, by profession a surgeon, whose picaresque novels are characterized by a brutally harsh view of contemporary life, whether seen in the wartime experiences of a young man on sea and land (The Adventures of Roderick Random 1748) or among fashionable society at home and abroad (The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 1751). Smollett took a slightly gentler line in his last book, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771), in which a varied and comic picture of Britain emerges from the letters written by a Welsh squire, Matthew Bramble, and his family as they travel through England and Scotland with a faithful servant, Humphry Clinker.
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