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The Adventures of Roderick Random by Tobias SMOLLETT (1721 - 1771)
Genre(s): Published before 1800

Read by: Arthur Krolman in English

Parts:

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 00 - Author's Preface and Apologue
00:13:02 - 01 - Chapter I
00:23:49 - 02 - Chapter II
00:34:27 - 03 - Chapter III
00:45:18 - 04 - Chapter IV
00:53:44 - 05 - Chapter V
01:06:07 - 06 - Chapter VI
01:22:02 - 07 - Chapter VII
01:37:09 - 08 - Chapter VIII
01:53:44 - 09 - Chapter IX
02:06:10 - 10 - Chapter X
02:20:30 - 11 - Chapter XI
02:38:25 - 12 - Chapter XII
02:57:28 - 13 - Chapter XIII
03:14:32 - 14 - Chapter XIV
03:30:23 - 15 - Chapter XV
03:45:29 - 16 - Chapter XVI
04:05:11 - 17 - Chapter XVII
04:24:27 - 18 - Chapter XVIII
04:39:15 - 19 - Chapter XIX
04:48:07 - 20 - Chapter XX
05:00:16 - 21 - Chapter XXI
05:21:50 - 22 - Chapter XXII
05:49:11 - 23 - Chapter XXIII
06:18:29 - 24 - Chapter XXIV
06:37:20 - 25 - Chapter XXV
06:48:22 - 26 - Chapter XXVI
06:58:00 - 27 - Chapter XXVII

I am Roderick Random. This is the contemporary story of my struggle against the adversity of orphan-hood, poverty, press gangs, bloody duels, rival fortune hunters, and the challenge to be well-dressed through it all. In the course of recounting my adventures to you, dear reader, I will give you a front row seat to the characters of English eighteenth century life including highway robbers, womanizing monks, debt-laden gallants, lecherous corrupt officials, effeminate sea captains, bloodthirsty surgeons, and my dear friend Miss Williams, a reformed prostitute. Educated in the classics, armed with a confident conscientious attitude and my long-suffering sidekick, Strap, I fight the good fight staying, on the whole, morally upstanding throughout. Today, if there be such a thing as true happiness on earth, I enjoy it -- and without having spent a fortune on college either. After hearing me out, I expect you'll be as wonderfully transported as one dear wealthy gentleman who listened to my whole story and then blessed God for the adversity I had undergone, which, he said, enlarged the understanding, improved the heart, steeled the constitution, and qualified a young man for all the duties and enjoyments of life much better than any education which affluence could bestow. Summary by Arthur Krolman.