The first novel by a major English writer that is devoted to a thoroughgoing portrait of villainy, The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom chronicles the life of an aberrant criminal character. Filled with striking satiric thrusts at the legal, medical, and military establishments of mid-eighteenth-century Europe and England, the novel reveals Tobias Smollett’s capacities as a commentator on contemporary life.
First published in 1753, Ferdinand Count Fathom is an experimental work that explores the relations between history and fiction and introduces, for the first time in the English novel, episodes of Gothic melodrama. Too long neglected and never before available in a carefully prepared scholarly edition, Ferdinand Count Fathom may now be read, understood, and appreciated against the literary and historical background of the eighteenth-century world.
Tobias Smollett
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom [PDF ebook]
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom [PDF ebook]
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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 528 ● ISBN 9780820346427 ● File size 30.2 MB ● Publisher University of Georgia Press ● City Athens ● Country US ● Published 2014 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5513660 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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