The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
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The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom

  1. 528 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Illustrations
  4. Preface
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. List of Abbreviations
  7. Introduction
  8. The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
  9. Notes to the Text
  10. Textual Commentary
  11. List of Emendations
  12. Textual Notes
  13. Word-Division
  14. Historical Collation
  15. Bibliographical Descriptions
  16. Index
  17. Table of Corrections