num_pages: 102
description: Rich with hilarious episodes, Scriblerus is an ingenious satire of false learning and bad taste that has much to say to the pseudo-intellectual world of today. By taking one ambitious father and his determination to do everything in his power to produce a child of genius, Pope exposes the true folly of the men of his age and their absurd veneration of the ancients. As this hallowed child grows into a man, it becomes clear that instead of being the scholar his father so desired, he is simply the inevitable offspring of a laughable generation of pseudo-intellectuals and literati.
language: English
title: Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus
titlecomplete: Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Comedy, Humor, Literature, 18th Century, Classics, Novels
ratings_count: 376
publisher: Hesperus Press