7 Best literature books like The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett

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The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

By: Tobias Smollett

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Offers a picture of eighteenth-century society. This story describes Squire Bramble's tour of the B…

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1. A Sentimental Journey

By: Laurence Sterne , Paul Goring

3.31

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

A furiously witty response to Tobias Smollett's curmudgeonly 'Travels through France and Italy', La… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • humor
  • fiction
  • 18th century
  • novels
"It had ever, as I told the reader, been one of the singular blessings of my life, to be almost every hour of it miserably in love with some one...."

-Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey

"Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace thee and this is thy divinity which stirs within…"

-Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey

"I could wish to spy the nakedness of their hearts, and through the different disguises of customs, climates, and religion, find out what is good in them, to fashion my own by. It is for this reason t…"

-Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey

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2. Scoop

By: Evelyn Waugh

3.80

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the "Daily Beast", has always prided himself on hi… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • humor
  • fiction
  • novels
"Ah well, to the journalist every country is rich."

-Evelyn Waugh, Scoop

"News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read."

-Evelyn Waugh, Scoop

"Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'--William Boot"

-Evelyn Waugh, Scoop

"As there was no form of government common to the peoples thus segregated, nor tie of language, history, habit or belief, they were called a Republic."

-Evelyn Waugh, Scoop

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3. Moll Flanders

By: Daniel Defoe

3.52

Format: 339 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781853260735. The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Fla… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • 18th century
  • fiction
  • novels
"I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm."

-Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders

"I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over..."

-Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders

"Thus the Government of our Virtue was broken and I exchang'd the Place of Friend for that unmusical harsh-sounding Title of Whore."

-Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders

"He look'd a little disorder'd, when he said this, but I did not apprehend any thing from it at that time, believing as it us'd to be said, that they who do those things never talk of them; or that th…"

-Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders

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4. Our Mutual Friend

By: Charles Dickens

4.09

Format: 801 pages, Paperback

A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the in… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
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  • fiction
  • novels
"I really am a little afraid, my dear,"

-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

"Eugene, Eugene, Eugene, this is a bad business!"

-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

"Ah me!" said he, "what might have been is not what is!"

-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

"Demon—with the highest respect for you—behold your work!"

-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

Cover of The Vicar of Wakefield by Robert L. Mack, Oliver Goldsmith, Arthur Friedman

5. The Vicar of Wakefield

By: Robert L. Mack , Oliver Goldsmith , Arthur Friedman

3.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Oliver Goldsmith's hugely successful novel of 1766 remained for generations one of the most highly … read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • 18th century
  • fiction
  • novels
Cover of The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox, Margaret Anne Doody, Margaret Dalziel, Duncan Isles

6. The Female Quixote

By: Charlotte Lennox , Margaret Anne Doody , Margaret Dalziel , Duncan Isles

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Female Quixote, a vivacious and ironical novel parodying the style of Cervantes, portrays Arabe… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • humor
  • 18th century
  • fiction
Cover of The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett

7. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

By: Tobias Smollett

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Offers a picture of eighteenth-century society. This story describes Squire Bramble's tour of the B… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • humor
  • fiction
  • 18th century
  • novels
Cover of Fantomina; or, Love in a Maze by Eliza Fowler Haywood

8. Fantomina; or, Love in a Maze

By: Eliza Fowler Haywood

3.86

Format: 568 pages, Paperback

Eliza Haywood (1693-1756) (born Elizabeth Fowler) was an English writer, actress and publisher. Sin… read more

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  • 18th century
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield, Lorna Sage

9. The Garden Party and Other Stories

By: Katherine Mansfield , Lorna Sage

3.97

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

Written during the final stages of her illness, "The Garden Party and Other Stories" is full of a s… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
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10. The Woman of Colour

By: Lyndon J. Dominique

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

In The Woman of Colour, Olivia Fairfield, the biracial heroine and orphaned daughter of an English … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction

11. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

By: Laurence Sterne , Melvyn New

3.90

Format: 256 pages,

Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categoriz… read more

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12. Mary Barton

By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Shirley Foster

3.91

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

This is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 183… read more

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13. Waverley

By: Walter Scott

4.12

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Waverleyis set during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, which sought to restore the Stuart dynasty in… read more

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14. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

By: James Hogg , John Carey

3.88

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

James Hogg wrote about the supernatural powerfully and convincingly, especially in his best-known n… read more

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15. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

By: Henry Fielding , Thomas Keymer , Alice Wakely

3.17

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is… read more

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16. Evelina

By: None , Edward A. Bloom

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

Frances Burney's first and most enduringly popular novel is a vivid, satirical, and seductive accou… read more

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17. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

By: Samuel Johnson , None

4.27

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

Rasselas--regarded as Johnson's most creative work--presents the story of the journey of Rasselas a… read more

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18. Caleb Williams

By: William Godwin , Maurice Hindle

4.33

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

When honest young Caleb Williams comes to work as a secretary for Squire Falkland, he soon begins t… read more

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19. Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded

By: Samuel Richardson , Thomas Keymer , Alice Wakely

3.97

Format: 12 pages, Paperback

One of the most spectacular successes of the flourishing literary marketplace of eighteenth-century… read more

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20. Castle Rackrent

By: Maria Edgeworth

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Set in Ireland prior to its achieving legislative independence from Britain in 1782, Castle Rackren… read more

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21. Joseph Andrews

By: Henry Fielding

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Joseph Andrews refuses Lady Booby's advances, she discharges him, and Joseph and his old tutor, Par… read more

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