The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

Smollett’s last and finest novel unfolds entirely in letters as the cantankerous Matthew Bramble tours Britain with his squabbling family, each correspondent seeing the same journey differently. The result is a rich comic panorama of eighteenth-century England and Scotland, full of eccentric characters and sly social commentary. ‘Humphry Clinker’ is widely regarded as one of the great comic novels in English.