Tobias Smollett

by Jeremy Lewis

A superb biography and a magnificent resurrection of the great eighteenth-century novelist, by the author of the highly-praised Cyril Connolly: A Life.

360 pages, Hardcover

First published August 28, 2003

About the author

Jeremy Lewis spent much of his life working in publishing. He is the author of two highly-praised volumes of autobiography, Playing for Time and Kindred Spirits, and of biographies of Cyril Connolly and Tobias Smollett.

Reviews

[Russell James · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lewis apologises for writing a non-scholarly biography but the book is all the better for it, being both hugely readable and remarkably informative on 18th century life and literature.