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    The Adventures of Roderick Random is a picaresque novel by Tobias Smollett, first published in 1748. It is partially based on Smollett's experience as...
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    Roderick Kingsey, also known as Hobgoblin a supervillain in Marvel Comics Roderick Random, protagonist of the 1748 novel The Adventures of Roderick Random...
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    Tobias Smollett's The Adventures of Roderick Random, which was published in 1748, the eponymous hero takes a coach to Bath and on the way apprehends a highwayman...
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    Tobias Smollett (category Alumni of the University of Glasgow)
    picaresque novels such as The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748), The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)...
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  • 1748 in literature (category Years of the 18th century in literature)
    Thomas Sheridan – The Simile Tobias Smollett The Adventures of Roderick Random English translation of The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane by Alain-René...
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    novel, The Adventures of Roderick Random, a "bumboat woman" conducts business with sailors imprisoned on board a pressing tender moored near the Tower...
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  • Loblolly boy (category Military medicine in the United Kingdom)
    Tobias Smollett's 1748 novel The Adventures of Roderick Random, the protagonist Random was made a loblolly boy upon entering the Royal Navy. Smollett himself...
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    contemporary life; the precursor of such novels as Gil Blas by Alain-René Lesage and The Adventures of Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett. It reminds the well-read...
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  • referred to the boiled meat. Early references to Soup and Bouilli in English are from books by Tobias Smollett. In The Adventures of Roderick Random published...
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    abridged versions of Foxe's Book of Martyrs were the most broadly read books. Robinson Crusoe (1719) and The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) were early...
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    solution. The name "Tom Bowling" was widely associated with nautical themes, see The Adventures of Roderick Random and Charles Dibdin. The Book of Knots is...
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  • to: A character in the novel The Adventures of Roderick Random An 18th-century song by Charles Dibdin The fourth movement of the Fantasia on British...
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  • novels. His The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) is the first major novel written in English to have a Scotsman as hero, and the multinational voices...
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    Novel in Scotland (category History of literature in Scotland)
    Tobias Smollett's picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Roderick Random and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle mean that he is often seen as Scotland's...
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  • 18th century in literature (category History of literature)
    quasi-autobiographical novel The Adventures of Roderick Random was also published. 1749: Henry Fielding's The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling was published...
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    being the Resolutions of the Councils of War, London, 1744. Smollet, Tobias. The Adventures of Roderick Random. 1748. Historical novel based on Smollett's...
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  • by Mark Twain The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi The Adventures of Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by...
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    best known for his picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751) for which he is often...
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    The Adventures of Roderick Random, published in 1748, is a picaresque novel partially based on Smollett's experience as a naval-surgeon's mate in the British...
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    Tom King's Coffee House (category Former buildings and structures in the City of Westminster)
    mentions it in both The Covent-Garden Tragedy and Pasquin and Tobias Smollett in The Adventures of Roderick Random. Of the three shacks, the largest and most...
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  • (1928–1998), Consider the Lilies Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915–1995), Carotid Cornucopia Tobias Smollett (1721–1771), The Adventures of Roderick Random Muriel Spark...
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    for his picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748); best known work is The Expedition of Humphry Clinker Carl Ludwig Emil Aarestrup...
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    writing in the Tribune in 1944, said regarding the novels Roderick Random and Peregrine Pickle: Peregrine devotes himself for months at a time to the elaborate...
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  • James Basker (category Alumni of the University of Oxford)
    (link) Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771. (15 January 2014). The adventures of Roderick Random (Paperback ed.). Athens, Georgia. ISBN 978-0-8203-4603-8....
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  • Tobias Smollett's anonymous picaresque novel The Adventures of Roderick Random. James Thomson's poem The Castle of Indolence, shortly before his death. 15...
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    Belvedere College (category Boys' schools in the Republic of Ireland)
    and the stage adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials in 2007. Other productions of note include Bugsy Malone, The Adventures of Roderick Random...
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  • English) Tobias Smollett (1721–1771), novelist and poet, The Adventures of Roderick Random Christopher Smout (b. 1933), Historiographer Royal William...
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    best known for his picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751) for which he is often...
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    prolific. He wrote the following and more: The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748), The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751), The Adventures of Ferdinand Count...
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    figure of satire and is believed to have inspired the character of "Captain Whiffle" in Smollett's 1748 novel The Adventures of Roderick Random. In 1754...
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