Humphry Clinker

The eighteenthcentury picaresque masterpiecea now in a new edition A triumphof English satire <strong>Humphry Clinker</strong> was published just three months p... » 

The eighteenthcentury picaresque masterpiecea now in a new edition A triumphof English satire Humphry Clinker was published just three months prior toits authoras death in 1771. At its heart is Matthew Bramble a goutriddenmisanthrope who travels Britain with his nephew niece spinster sister andmanservant the trusty Humphry Clinker. In a narrative peopled with pimpsdrunkards and con men Brambleas pessimistic views on the worldas degeneracyaand his eagerness to express themabetray the authoras belief that hiscountrymen were suffering from an acute lack of sense and sobriety. Boisterousand keenly observant Humphry Clinker is a delicious sendup of eighteenthcentury society. «