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The Adventures of Roderick Random app for iPhone and iPad


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Entertainment Book
Developer: Xu Cun Lu
0.99 USD
Current version: 1.01, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 12 Aug 2010
App size: 3.86 Mb

The Adventures of Roderick Random is a picaresque novel by Tobias Smollett, first published in 1748. It is partially based on Smolletts experience as a naval-surgeon’s mate in the British Navy, especially during Battle of Cartagena de Indias in 1741. In the preface, Smollett acknowledges the connections of his novel to the two satirical picaresque works he translated into English: Cervantes’ Don Quixote (1605-15) and Alain-René Lesage’s Gil Blas (1715-47).