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Humphry Clinker

Tobias Smollett

Humphry Clinker

Original publication
1771
Bilingual edition
June 12, 2026
Pages
932
Difficulty
★★★
Genres
Adventure, Travel Writing, Poetic
Translated from
English

About this book

Matthew Bramble, an irritable elderly man, travels across England with his family and companions. Each recounts the journey in their own way, revealing their opinions and contradictions. Situations quickly turn comical, filled with misunderstandings and social criticism. The narrative presents a gallery of varied and often excessive characters. This epistolary novel offers multiple perspectives on the same events. The author delivers a lively satire of society and human behavior.

The benefits of the bilingual method with Line-by-line synced layout

Every line of the original has its translation directly beneath it, at the same height. You never lose your place: your eye drops one line and lands on exactly the sentence it just read. This is the layout that lets you open a book in a language you barely know without ever giving up, and compare the two texts almost word for word.

The excerpt shows the method using another book from the catalogue, not this one.

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