For 10 points, name this ship's surgeon and author of such picaresque novels and The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves and The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker.
One of his later works featured a haberdasher recounting ancient Japanese stories, that were, in actuality, criticisms of English policy.  That work, The History and Adventures of an Atom, appeared three years after his travelogue, Travels Through France and Italy, and Laurence Sterne parodied him as "Smelfungus" in his own travel literature.  He also translated Don Quixote into English and wrote A Complete History of England and its continuation, sales of which he boosted by placing fliers for it in church pews.  Additionally, he wrote the play The Regicide and the poem "The Tears of Scotland," but is best known for his novels.  For 10 points, name this ship's surgeon and author of such picaresque novels and The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves and The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker.
One of his later works featured a haberdasher recounting ancient Japanese stories, that were, in actuality, criticisms of English policy.  
Tobias George Smollett