A hot-tempered Scot knocks about the navy, war, and love in a rough picaresque. Smollett's vigorous early novel.
Books mentioned in The Adventures of Roderick Random (4)
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: “…of his way; and asked me if I had got never a piece of secret history, thrown into a series of letters, or a volume of adventures, such as those of Robinson Crusoe, and Colonel Jack, or a collection of Conundrums, wherewith to entertain the plantations.”
Colonel Jack by Daniel Defoe: “…me if I had got never a piece of secret history, thrown into a series of letters, or a volume of adventures, such as those of Robinson Crusoe, and Colonel Jack, or a collection of Conundrums, wherewith to entertain the plantations.”
Odes by Horace: “for Horace uses the words poto and bibo indifferently for the same purpose, as in the twentieth Ode of his first Book.”
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes: “A third sort swore, that no other cause could be assigned for this undertaking than that which induced Don Quixote to attack the windmill.”
Books that mention The Adventures of Roderick Random (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.”
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain: “However, I had read "Tom Jones," and "Roderick Random," and other books of that kind, and knew that the highest and first ladies and gentlemen in England had remained little or no cleaner in their talk, and in the morals and conduct which such talk implies, clear up to a hundred years ago; in fact…”
Possession by A. S. Byatt: “he remembered reading Roderick Random, an English work, full of robust and genial disgust at the human condition.”
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Tobias Smollett: “In the course of the conversation, Peregrine learned that the Welshman was a surgeon of Canterbury, who had been called in to a consultation at Dover; and, understanding that his name was Morgan, took the liberty of asking if he was not the person so respectfully mentioned in the "Adventures of Roderick Random."”