In the canon
The Adventures Of Roderick Random
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1748
- Pages
- Pages 480
A poor Scots surgeon's apprentice is cheated, robbed, and press-ganged into the navy, where he nurses the sick through a disastrous siege. He wanders Europe broke, sails on a slave ship, finds his lost father rich, and marries an heiress.
I was much less surprised that people should die on board, than that a sick person should recover.
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