num_pages: 432
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: Written in Collaboration by the Members of the Scriblerus Club
titlecomplete: Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus: Written in Collaboration by the Members of the Scriblerus Club
genres: Fiction, Humor, Classics, 18th Century, British Literature, Comedy, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 376
publisher: Oxford University Press