Word: smollett
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...fertile and gifted English writer whose juicy novels are beginning to win the applause they deserve. While Gary's subject is 20th Century life, his work carries the rich old tone of the 18th Century English novel: the satiric shrewdness of a Fielding, the burly gusto of a Smollett, the finely cut detail of a Defoe. To undernourished imaginations, Gary offers a fat literary pudding, steaming with the odors of traditional England...