His own successes include the story of an English Don Quixote, Sir Launcelot Greaves, which, like much of his writing, was inspired by his time aboard the Chichester as a surgeon's mate.  
After he settled in Chelsea and wrote a large History of England, he produced a popular farce entitled The Reprisal.  This writer is portrayed as a man who sees every object distorted by his spleen as the character of Smelfungus in Laurence Sterne's Sentimental Journey.  His own successes include the story of an English Don Quixote, Sir Launcelot Greaves, which, like much of his writing, was inspired by his time aboard the Chichester as a surgeon's mate.  FTP, name this 18th-century English author of such adventure novels as Peregrine Pickle, Humphry Clinker, and Roderick Random.
After he settled in Chelsea and wrote a large History of England, he produced a popular farce entitled The Reprisal.  
Tobias Smollett