R. S. Surtees

Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities

Humorous sporting novel about a Yorkshire hunting enthusiast's escapades

About the author

R. S. Surtees
R. S. Surtees

Surtees was a sporting journalist and novelist whose Jorrocks series created one of the great comic characters of Victorian fiction in the cockney grocer-sportsman John Jorrocks. His fox-hunting comedies are unique documents of Victorian rural life.

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