The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, translated from the French of Le Sage, with an Account of the Author's Life

531 pp. 8vo. One-volume edition of the work originally released in parts. "Gil Blas (French: L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane) is a picaresque novel by Lesage from 1715 to 1735. It is considered to be the last masterpiece of the picaresque genre...Alain-René Lesage (May 6, 1668, Sarzeau–November 17, 1747, Boulogne), also spelled Le Sage was a French novelist and playwright born at Sarzeau, in the peninsula of Rhuys, between the Morbihan and the sea, Brittany...Tobias George Smollett (19 March 1721 – 17 September 1771) was a Scottish poet and author. He was best known for his picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751), which influenced later novelists such as Charles Dickens."