The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle Author:Tobias Smollett 1935. Complete in One Volume. Smollett was a man of letters in the fullest sense. Trained as a physician, he was not only a novelist but also a playwright, poet, journalist, historian, travel writer, critic, translator, and editor. A foreign excursion inspired The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle; an example of the picaresque novel, it was the fir... more »st of many rather extreme and libelous tracts by Smollet.« less