The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

✍ Scribed by Smollett, Tobias George

• Book ID: 106878045
• Year: 1771
• Tongue: en-GB
• Weight: 258 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

The titular character, Humphry Clinker , is an ostler, a stableman at an inn, who does not make his first appearance until about a quarter of the way through the story. He is taken on by Matthew Bramble and his family while they are travelling through England. Various adventures befall them, especially after their meeting with Lieutenant Lismahago, a Scotsman, who joins their party. After various romantic interludes, Humphry suffers false imprisonment but is rescued and returned to his sweetheart, the maid Winifred Jenkins. It is then discovered that Humphry is Mr. Bramble's illegitimate son from a relationship with a barmaid during his wilder university days.