The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle - Wikipedia The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Redirected from Peregrine Pickle) Jump to navigation Jump to search The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle First edition title page Author Tobias Smollett Country Great Britain Language English Genre novel Publication date 1751 1758 (revised reissue) Media type Print Pages 372 The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle is a picaresque novel by the Scottish author Tobias Smollett, first published in 1751 and revised and published again in 1758. It tells the story of an egotistical man who experiences luck and misfortunes in the height of 18th-century European society. Contents 1 Plot summary 2 Criticism 3 Legacy 4 References 5 External links Plot summary[edit] Commodore Trunnion and Jack Hatchway by Francis William Edmonds The novel begins with the character of Peregrine as a young country gentleman rejected by his cruel mother, ignored by his indifferent father, and hated by his degenerate brother. After their alienation, he turns to Commodore Hawser Trunnion, who raises him. Peregrine's detailed life experience provides a scope for Smollett's satire on human cruelty, stupidity, and greed: from his upbringing, education at Oxford, journey to France, jailing at the Fleet, unexpected succession to his father's fortune, and final repentance and marriage to his beloved Emilia. The novel is written as a series of adventures, with every chapter depicting a new experience. The novel also contains a lengthy independent story called "The Memoirs of a Lady of Quality", written by Frances Vane, Viscountess Vane. Peregrine Pickle features several amusing characters, most notably Commodore Hawser Trunnion, an old seaman and misogynist who lives in a house with his former shipmates. Trunnion's lifestyle may have inspired Charles Dickens to create the character of Wemmick in Great Expectations.[1] Another interesting character is Peregrine's friend Cadwallader Crabtree, an old misanthrope who amuses himself by playing ingenious jokes on naive people. Smollett also caricatured many of his enemies in the novel, most notably Henry Fielding and the actor David Garrick. Fitzroy Henry Lee was supposedly the model for Hawser Trunnion.[2] Criticism[edit] George Orwell, writing in the Tribune in 1944, said regarding the novels Roderick Random and Peregrine Pickle: "Peregrine devotes himself for months at a time to the elaborate and horribly cruel practical jokes in which the eighteenth century delighted. When, for instance, an unfortunate English painter is thrown into the Bastille for some trifling offence and is about to be released, Peregrine and his friends, playing on his ignorance of the language, let him think he has been sentenced to be broken on a wheel. A little later they tell him that his punishment has been commuted to castration. Why are these petty rogueries worth reading about? In the first place because they are funny. Secondly, by simply ruling out "good" motives and showing no respect whatever for human dignity, Smollett often attains a truthfulness that more serious novelists have missed."[3] Legacy[edit] George P. Upton published the Letters of Peregrine Pickle in the Chicago Tribune from 1866–1869 as weekly letters and then in book forms.[4] References[edit] ^ Beaman, Evelyn Armstrong, "Dickens' relationship to Tobias Smollett". Masters Theses 1896 – February 2014. Paper 1304. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/1304 ^ J. K. Laughton, ‘Lee, Fitzroy Henry (1699–1750)’, rev. Philip Carter, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 ^ Tribune, 22 September 1944, reprinted in Orwell: Collected Works, I Have Tried to Tell the Truth, p. 409 ^ Upton, George P. (George Putnam) (July 16, 1869). "Letters of Peregrine Pickle [pseud]". Chicago: The Western News Company – via Internet Archive. External links[edit] The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle at Project Gutenberg The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle Peregrine Pickle, 1751 v t e Works by Tobias Smollett Novels The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751) The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom (1753) The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves (1760) The History and Adventures of an Atom (1769) The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771) Non-fiction Travels through France and Italy (1766) Authority control LCCN: n2009043241 NLA: 35438094 VIAF: 181216462 WorldCat Identities (via VIAF): 181216462 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Adventures_of_Peregrine_Pickle&oldid=979630253" Categories: 1751 novels Novels by Tobias Smollett Picaresque novels Maritime books 1758 in Scotland 18th-century British novels Novels first published in serial form Hidden categories: CS1: Julian–Gregorian uncertainty Articles with Project Gutenberg links Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLA identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WorldCat-VIAF identifiers Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version Languages Русский Edit links This page was last edited on 21 September 2020, at 20:46 (UTC). 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