The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780820346014)

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: Tobias George Smollett
ISBN-10: 0820346012
ISBN-13: 9780820346014
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Language: English
Published: 01/15/2014
Pages: 528
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.38lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.31d

About the Author
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.