The Adventures of Ferdinand, Count Fathom
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.[1] He is the son of an equally disreputable mother, and Smollett himself comments that "Fathom justifies the proverb, 'What's bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh". Sir Walter Scott commented that the novel paints a "complete picture of human depravity" [1]
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| Author | Tobias Smollett |
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| Country | England |
| Language | English |
| Genre | novel |
Publication date | 1753 |
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The main character reappears as a minor character in Smollet's later novel The Expedition of Humphry Clinker.
The novel's elements of terror and the supernatural have caused some historians of English literature to describe it as anticipating the themes of the Gothic novel.[2][3]
Bibliography
- Title: The Adventures Of Ferdinand Count Fathom
- Author: Tobias George Smollett
- Illustration: Thomas Stothard
- Edition: reprinted
- Editor: Kessinger Publishing, 2004
- ISBN 1417939907, 9781417939909
- 464 pages
References
External links
- The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom at Project Gutenberg
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom public domain audiobook at LibriVox
