The Adventures of Roderick Random

Tobias Smollett's boisterous eighteenth-century picaresque, following a young Scotsman through misfortune, sea voyages, and rogues aplenty in a raucous, satirical tour of Georgian life.

At a glance The eighteenth-century novel could be a rough and rollicking thing, and Tobias… What it's about The novel follows Roderick Random, a young Scotsman of good birth but… Cheated, pressed into naval service, tossed across seas and countries, thrown among… In the picaresque tradition, the episodic journey becomes a tour of Georgian society at…

The novel follows Roderick Random, a young Scotsman of good birth but poor fortune, as he makes his way through a hostile world in search of prosperity and love.