Adventures of a Corkscrew
Publish date: 1775
Publisher: London : T. Bell
Pages no: 170
Edition language: English
The picaresque adventures of a corkscrew, of course - no guiding plan here, except the need to alight on certain topics ripe for satire - the gambler, the corrupt bishop, the loose woman. The story-telling is in that curiously flat eighteenth-century style, which seems to assume that the mere retail...