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The Works of Tobias Smollett
Alexander Pettit, General Editor
Works of the eighteenth-century British man of letters in a definitive, authoritatively edited uniform edition. Each series volume includes an authoritative text, historical and critical introduction, explanatory notes, and textual commentary and apparatus.

Alexander Pettit, a professor of English at the University of North Texas, specializes in Restoration and eighteenth-century literature. His books include Illusory Consensus and Textual Studies and the Common Reader (Georgia). In addition to his work on the Smollett series, Pettit is general and textual editor of the Selected Works of Eliza Haywood, textual editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Samuel Richardson, and general editor of British Ideas and Issues, 1660–1820.

Pettit's essays have appeared in Philological Quarterly, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Papers in Language and Literature, 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, Studies in the Literary Imagination, The Age of Johnson, Huntington Library Quarterly, and other journals.

Recently published in the series

The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Translated by Tobias Smollett
Introduction and notes by Martin C. Battestin
Text edited by O M Brack Jr.

$100.00 hardcover
ISBN 978-0-8203-2430-2

The Devil upon Crutches
Alain René Le Sage
Translated by Tobias Smollett
Edited by O M Brack, Jr. and Leslie A. Chilton

$59.95 hardcover
ISBN 978-0-8203-2053-3