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Tobias George Smollett (1721–1771)
Smollett, Tobias George. A celebrated British novelist; born at Dalquhurn, Dumbartonshire, Scotland, March 1721; died at Monte Nero, near Leghorn, Italy, Oct. 17, 1771. His works include: ‘Advice’ (1746?), a satire; ‘Reproof’ (1746?), a satire; ‘The Adventures of Roderick Random’ (1748); ‘The Regicide’ (1749), a tragedy; ‘The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle’ (1751); ‘The Adventures of Ferdinand, Count Fathom’ (1753); ‘Don Quixote’ (1755), a translation from the Spanish of Cervantes; ‘Compendium of Voyages and Travels’ (1757); ‘History of England from the Landing of Cæsar to the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle’ (1757); ‘The Reprisals’ (1757) a farce; ‘The Adventures of Sir Lancelot Greaves’ (1760–61); a translation of ‘Gil Blas’ (1761); ‘The Present State of all Nations: containing a Geographical, Natural, Commercial, and Political History of all the Countries of the Known World’ (1763); ‘Travels’ (1766); ‘The Adventures of an Atom’ (1769), a political satire; and ‘The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker’ (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).