A headstrong, prank-loving gentleman roams England and the Continent, squandering fortunes and playing cruel jokes before humbling reversals.
Books that mention Peregrine Pickle (4)
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens: “From that blessed little room, Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Humphrey Clinker, Tom Jones, the Vicar of Wakefield, Don Quixote, Gil Blas, and Robinson Crusoe, came out, a glorious host, to keep me company.”
The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams: “He liked her refined figure; her gentle voice and manner; her vague effect of not belonging there, but to Washington or to Europe, like her furniture, and writing-desk with little glass doors above and little eighteenth-century volumes in old binding, labelled "Peregrine Pickle" or "Tom Jones" or "Hannah More."”
White-Jacket by Herman Melville: “For this purpose, Peregrine Pickle is a good book; so is Gil Blas; so is Goldsmith.”
Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham: “I happen to know that Smollett wrote Peregrine Pickle.”