The eighteenth-century picaresque masterpiece���now in a new edition
A triumph of English satire, Humphry Clinker was published just three months prior to its author�'s death in 1771. At its heart is Matthew Bramble, a gout-ridden misanthrope who travels
Britain with his nephew, niece, spinster sister, and manservant, the trusty Humphry Clinker. In a narrative peopled with pimps, drunkards, and con men, Bramble�'s pessimistic views on the
world�'s degeneracy���and his eagerness to express them���etray the author�'s belief that his countrymen were suffering from an acute lack of sense and sobriety. Boisterous and keenly
observant, Humphry Clinker is a delicious send-up of eighteenth-century society.
