The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom

By:

Tobias Smollett

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Paperback / softback

Series:

The Works of Tobias Smollett Ser.

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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.

Author Biography:

TOBIAS SMOLLETT (1721-1771) was a novelist, playwright, journalist, historian, travel writer, critic, translator, editor, and compiler--an eighteenth-century man of letters in the fullest sense of the phrase.

Release date Australia

January 30th, 2014

Author

Tobias Smollett

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Contributor

Series edited by Jerry C. Beasley

Illustrations

12 b&w illus.

Pages

528

Series

The Works of Tobias Smollett Ser.

Dimensions

152x229x30

ISBN-13

9780820346014

Product ID

21404628

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