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The Adventures of Roderick Random is a picaresque novel by Tobias Smollett, first published in 1748. His mother dies soon after giving birth and his father is driven mad with grief. Finally Random is cast out after the tutor exacts revenge for one of Random's escapades and denounces him to his grandfather.
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