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The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom

Smollett, Tobias

Hardcover

Series: Works of Tobias Smollett

Classic FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0820310107
ISBN13: 9780820310107
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: Aug 1 1988
Pages: 528
Weight: 2.06
Height: 1.62 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.41
Language: English

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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