Ferdinand Count Fathom’ was the first book in which Smollett relied on invention rather than experience. The upside of this is that he creates a series of incidents which intriguingly prefigure the Gothic style of a later era; the downside is that the book is simply not very good, despite a strong opening chapter and some fine creepy moments. As a book, ‘Fathom’ is almost entirely cynical. But the failure of The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom (1753) caused financial difficulties for him. Publishing The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves (1762) didn't help.

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom is a novel by Tobias Smollett first published in 1753. It was Smollett's third novel and met with less success than his two previous more picaresque tales. The central character is a villainous dandy who cheats, swindles and philanders his way across Europe and England with little concern for the law or the welfare of others.

Smollett, the only major eighteenth-century English novelist whose work . Библиографические данные. The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom A Penguin Book: Fiction Penguin classics Penguin classics: Literature.

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The Smollett of Count Fathom, on the contrary, is rather a forerunner of the romantic school, who has created a tolerably organic tale of adventure out of his own brain

The Smollett of Count Fathom, on the contrary, is rather a forerunner of the romantic school, who has created a tolerably organic tale of adventure out of his own brain. The first of these is the comparative lifelessness of the book.

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom (Penguin Classics). Travels through France and Italy.

Literature & Fiction. has been added to your Cart. Having a fondness for Smollett, it was a pleasant surprise to come across this Penguin PB in a used bookstore. I'm not sure if Smollett is now considered an obscure author, as such it may be unintendedly accurate to call this one of his obscure novels, but I digress.

LibriVox recording of The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom by Tobias Smollett. Read in English by Arthur Krolman. You can call me Dr. Fathom. But I'm not who I say I am. And can you blame me? My mother was a soldiers' harlot who pocketed extra loot by wandering through the battlefield stripping the dead and dying of valuables. I don't even know who my father was, except he must have had my handsome looks.

Tobias George Smollett (19 March 1721 – 17 September 1771) was a Scottish poet and author. He was best known for his picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751), which influenced later novelists such as Charles Dickens. George Orwell admired Smollett very much.

But I'm not who I say I am. People liked looking at me.

Books related to The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom. Complete Works of Tobias Smollett (Delphi Classics). Complete Works of Mary Shelley (Delphi Classics). The Collected Works of Tobias Smollett.