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Robert Smith Surtees

In "Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour," the protagonist, Mr. Sponge, embarks on a sporting journey through the English countryside, encountering various characters and engaging in a series of adventures related to hunting, horse racing, and other rural pursuits. The novel satirizes the eccentricities and foibles of the English upper class and rural society of the time.Robert Smith Surtees' writing style in "Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour" is characterized by its wit, humor, and vivid depiction of cou...

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Robert Smith Surtees

"Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour" is a classic comedic novel written by Robert Smith Surtees. The story revolves around the misadventures of Mr. Sponge, a city man with a passion for fox hunting and a lack of knowledge about rural life. In the novel, Mr. Sponge embarks on a sporting tour of the English countryside, hoping to indulge in his favourite pastime of fox hunting. Along the way, he encounters various eccentric characters, humorous situations, and mishaps, providing ample entertainment ...

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Robert S Surtees

Facey is a trickster who takes advantage of society's greed and gullibility, and gets away with it. This brisk, entertaining novel is the sequel to Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour.

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Robert Smith Surtees

Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities is a mid-19th-century British humorous novel that satirizes fox hunting culture and the eccentricities of sporting life in England. It is significant as a classic work of Victorian comic fiction, blending energetic storytelling with sharp social observation of class, leisure, and rural traditions. The novel follows the lively and outspoken Mr Jorrocks, a London grocer whose passion for hunting leads him into a series of comic adventures across the Surrey coun...

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Robert Smith Surtees

The novel is set in the world of English fox hunting and offers a satirical look at the sporting pursuits, social customs, and eccentric characters of the time. Jorrocks, with his colorful language and boisterous personality, serves as a humorous guide through various misadventures, hunts, and social gatherings.Surtees' work is celebrated for its wit, vivid characters, and lively depiction of early 19th-century English rural life. "Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities" remains a classic of Engli...

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Robert Smith Surtees

The story centers around a wealthy and influential commoner, who, despite his affluence, remains deeply rooted in the everyday concerns of common life. The title character, known as "Ask Mamma," is a man of substantial means but is portrayed with a blend of wit and satire.As the narrative unfolds, the plot explores the social dynamics and eccentricities of the time. It delves into the humorous aspects of the protagonist's life, including his interactions with other characters and the comed...

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Robert Smith Surtees

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Comedy & Satire

Complete and unabridged, with 35 full-page plates by John Everett Millais, Johannes Bosboom and Adolph Tidemand. A Cockney grocer with money and no seat rides to hounds across three counties, and every field he crosses belongs to somebody who wishes he would not. Surtees hunted all his life and wrote about it without a trace of reverence; Jorrocks was popular enough that Dickens's publishers asked for something similar, and got The Pickwick Papers. Thirty-five plates of hunting, shooting a...

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Robert Smith Surtees

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Comedy & Satire

Complete and unabridged, with 54 full-page plates by John Everett Millais, Adolph Tidemand and Théodore Ralli. A young man with an unearned reputation as a rider tries to keep it up across a hunting season, pursued by a mother with daughters. Surtees had a magistrate's eye for social pretense and a master of hounds' contempt for bad horsemanship, and uses both. This edition carries fifty-four bound plates, among them works by Grimshaw, de Loutherbourg and McGregor, alongside four illustrat...

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Robert S. Surtees

Spirit of the Game, The by Luther H. Gulick offers a concentrated, compelling experience within religion / general. This concise work presents carefully drawn characters and purposeful plotting that together explore themes of choice, consequence, and human connection. The prose is precise and economical, balancing vivid scenes with clear pacing to maintain narrative momentum. Ideal for readers seeking a thoughtful, accessible read, the book is well-suited to book clubs and classroom discus...

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Robert Smith Surtees, Tessa Dunleigh

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour is a richly comic panorama of mid-Victorian hunting society, following the opportunistic Mr. Sponge as he moves from one country-house invitation to another in pursuit of sport, comfort, and social advantage. Published in 1853, the novel combines picaresque structure, satirical dialogue, and sporting detail with the exuberant caricature later enhanced by John Leech's illustrations. Its literary context lies between the social novel and the comic sporting traditio...

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Robert Smith Surtees

Ask Momma : or The Richest Commoner In EnglandNow Mrs. Pringle had always had a very laudable admiration of fox-hunters. She thought the best introduction for a young man of fortune was at the cover side, and though Jerry Pringle (who looked upon them as synonymous) had always denounced "gamblin' and huntin'" as the two greatest vices of the day, she could never come in to that opinion, as far as hunting was concerned.She now thought if she could get Billy ...

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Robert Smith Surtees

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by the English editor, novelist and sporting writer, Robert Smith Surtees.He widely known as R. S. Surtees. He was the second son of Anthony Surtees of Hamsterley Hall, a member of an old County Durham family.