id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5926 The Adventures of Roderick Random - Wikipedia .html text/html 1044 112 61 The Adventures of Roderick Random Wikipedia The Adventures of Roderick Random is a picaresque novel by Tobias Smollett, first published in 1748. The novel is set in the 1730s and 1740s and tells the life story (in the first person) of Roderick "Rory" Random, who was born to a Scottish gentleman and a lower-class woman and is thus shunned by his father's family. The naive Random then embarks on a series of adventures and misadventures, visiting inter alia: London, Bath, France, the West Indies, West Africa and South America. The novel ends happily when Random is reunited with his now wealthy father in Argentina. External links[edit] Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Adventures of Roderick Random. The Adventures of Roderick Random at Project Gutenberg "Roderick Random". The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Adventures_of_Roderick_Random&oldid=996703483" Novels by Tobias Smollett Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Nuttall Encyclopedia ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5926.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5926.txt