>Clarissa>Tristram Shandy>Tom Jonesthe holy trinity
>>24860369Everyone here should read Tristram Shandy. It's a 600 page shitpost.
>>24860369>Tom Jones
>>24860376why would anyone want to read a 600-page shitpost?
>mfw I see a woman wearing luxurious imported fabrics
>>24860376It is indeed very shit.
Casanova?>>24860376That’s Gargantua and Pantagruel, which admittedly influenced Tristram Shandy. And Swift and Shakespeare. Tristram Shandy is about digressions and overthinking
>>24860369I am more a Robinson Crusoe man
>>24860369I'm trying to think of the works I have read from that century, and it is not a lot, although I really enjoyed them>Robinson Crusoe>Reflection on the Revolution in France>A bunch of essays from The SpectatorI always felt it was a great lit century, but just gets overshadowed by the more popular 19th century.
>>24860369What did you think of Tobias Smollett? Apparently he is one of the most popular authors for the AI generation.
>>24862371You should read Gulliver's Travels and check out the writings of the Scliberians
Do you philistines only read Anglophone works?
>>24863116Yes.
Clarissa is the best 18th century novel, 100 years ahead of its time in psychological depth.
>>24863116I read translations, as well.
>>24860369>Gulliver's Travels>Tristram Shandy>Tom Jones
>Smollet's Picaresques>Early Romanticism>Gothic Literature>Stockings and Breeches18th Century is objectively better than the 19th century. Everything the 19th century did, the 18th century did first.
>>24860369Imma give Tom Jones a try
>>24862112I like Moll Flanders better
