Smollett's first novel remains his most accessible. The innocent
Roderick, arriving in the London of 1748 with his schoolfellow
companion Strap, fights off rogues and villains - Gawky, Crampley,
Weasel, Wagtail and Badger among others - becomes a common sailor,
falls in love, is captured by smugglers, courts a rich heiress but
ends up in prison, and...well, in the end, of course, he re-meets
and marries the beautiful Narcissa (Strap marries her maid) and
lives happily ever after. Not just one story, but at least half a
dozen - and all narrated in an easy, familiar manner quite
astonishingly readable after two centuries and more. (Kirkus UK)
Roderick is combative, often violent, but capable of great
affection and generosity. His father had been disinherited and has
left Scotland leaving his son penniless. After a brief
apprenticeship to a surgeon, the innocent Roderick travels to
London where he encounters various rogues.
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