The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom: The Rise and Fall of a Scoundrel
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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A confidence man crosses eighteenth-century Europe fleecing the gullible, and the book follows him without ever pretending he is likeable. Smollett was a ship's surgeon before he was a novelist and wrote with the same absence of squeamishness; the preface here contains one of the earliest definitions of the novel in English. Scott and Dickens both learned from it. Fifty-five plates of ruins, landscapes and portraits from 1725 to 1805, among them Gainsborough and Guardi, extend the novel's own taste for a Europe of crumbling grandeur and plausible faces.
A confidence man crosses eighteenth-century Europe fleecing the gullible, and the book follows him without ever pretending he is likeable. Smollett was a ship's surgeon before he was a novelist and wrote with the same absence of squeamishness; the preface here contains one of the earliest definit...
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Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) was a Scottish novelist and surgeon born in Dunbartonshire. He served aboard a warship in the Caribbean, practised medicine in London, and edited the Critical Review. His works include Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Ferdinand Count Fathom, and Humphry Clinker.
Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) was a Scottish novelist and surgeon born in Dunbartonshire. He served aboard a warship in the Caribbean, practised medicine in London, and edited the Critical Review. His works include Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Ferdinand Count Fathom, and Humphry Clinker.
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