Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Volume II (Esprios Classics) - Tobias Smollett - Bog

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle is a picaresque novel by the Scottish author Tobias Smollett (1721-1771), first published in 1751 and revised and published again in 1758. It tells the story of an egotistical man who experiences luck and misfortunes in the height of 18th-century European society. The novel begins with the character of Peregrine as a young country gentleman rejected by his cruel mother, ignored by his indifferent father, and hated by his degenerate brother. After their alienation, he turns to Commodore Hawser Trunnion, who raises him.