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Author : Tobias Smollett
language : en
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Release Date : 1753

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Author : Tobias George Smollett
language : en
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Release Date : 1810

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Author : Tobias Smollett
language : en
Publisher: Aegitas
Release Date : 2023-09-22

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'The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom' is a novel written by Tobias Smollett and published in 1753. The story follows the life and exploits of the cunning and manipulative protagonist, Ferdinand Count Fathom. Smollett, known for his satirical and picaresque style, employs his unique wit and irony to create a darkly humorous and morally ambiguous tale. The narrative begins by introducing the young and ambitious Fathom, who sets out on a journey to London in search of fame and fortune. As the plot unfolds, the readers are taken on a tumultuous ride through Fathom's various encounters and misadventures, filled with deceit, treachery, and elaborate schemes. Fathom is portrayed as a master manipulator, using his wit and charm to exploit and deceive those around him. He effortlessly adopts different identities and employs a range of tactics to achieve his goals. Smollett presents a complex character study, raising questions about the nature of human morality and revealing the darker side of human nature. Throughout the novel, Smollett delves into themes such as greed, ambition, social status, and the corrupt nature of society. He exposes the hypocrisy and naivety of the upper class while simultaneously critiquing the lower class's vulnerability to manipulation. The author's sharp social commentary is evident in his portrayal of the flaws and vices of the characters, providing a scathing critique of 18th-century society. "The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom" offers a gripping and entertaining read, seamlessly blending adventure, suspense, and wit. Smollett's engaging storytelling and colorful characters make for a compelling narrative that keeps readers captivated from start to finish. Whether seen as a cautionary tale or a reflection of the human condition, this novel stands as a testament to Smollett's skill in crafting a thought-provoking and engaging work of literature.

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Author : Tobias Smollett
language : en
Publisher: Librofilio
Release Date : 2023-09-06

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Embark on a riveting literary journey with "The Adventures of Ferdinand, Count Fathom" by Tobias Smollett. This captivating novel takes readers on a rollicking ride through the 18th-century European landscape, following the exploits of the charming and enigmatic Count Fathom. From the bustling streets of London to the opulent courts of Paris, Count Fathom's daring escapades weave a tapestry of intrigue, deception, and unexpected twists. Born into mystery and driven by ambition, Fathom navigates a world of con artists, noble intrigue, and treacherous plots. As the charismatic Count Fathom maneuvers his way through the social strata, he charms and cons his way into the lives of unsuspecting individuals. With each encounter, his complex character evolves, revealing both his cunning nature and surprising depths. Smollett's masterful prose captures the essence of 18th-century society, blending adventure and satire in a tale that exposes the foibles of human nature. "The Adventures of Ferdinand, Count Fathom" is a spellbinding narrative that delves into the complexities of identity, ambition, and the art of deception. As Count Fathom weaves his web of schemes, readers are drawn into a world where appearances can be deceiving, and where the line between ally and adversary is blurred. With its richly drawn characters and exhilarating plot, this novel offers a thrilling exploration of the darker facets of human behavior and the art of manipulation. Dive into this classic work to experience a tale of intrigue, suspense, and moral ambiguity that has captivated readers for generations. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Tobias Smollett, a literary trailblazer of the 18th century, brought his vibrant imagination to life through his eloquent prose and sharp wit. Born in 1721, this Scottish novelist and satirist embarked on a journey that would leave an indelible mark on the literary landscape. With an insatiable curiosity and an eye for detail, Smollet penned tales that spanned genres and captured the essence of his era. From the uproarious escapades of 'The Adventures of Roderick Random' to the biting social commentary of 'The Expedition of Humphry Clinker,' his works resonated with readers across generations. His distinctive style intertwined humor, adventure, and astute observations, painting vivid portraits of both his characters and the society they inhabited. A skilled physician turned prolific writer, Smollett's narratives blended reality and fiction to create a rich tapestry of storytelling. As a satirist, he wielded his pen to illuminate the follies of his time, using humor as a powerful tool for commentary. Smollett's legacy endures, reminding us of the enduring power of storytelling to entertain, enlighten, and reflect the complexities of the human experience.

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Author : TOBIAS SMOLLETT
language : en
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Release Date : 2023-06-16

The Adventures Of Ferdinand Count Fathom written by TOBIAS SMOLLETT and has been published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom, Smollett’s third novel, was given to the world in 1753. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, writing to her daughter, the Countess of Bute, over a year later [January 1st, 1755], remarked that “my friend Smollett . . . has certainly a talent for invention, though I think it flags a little in his last work.” Lady Mary was both right and wrong. The inventive power which we commonly think of as Smollett’s was the ability to work over his own experience into realistic fiction. Of this, Ferdinand Count Fathom shows comparatively little. It shows relatively little, too, of Smollett’s vigorous personality, which in his earlier works was present to give life and interest to almost every chapter, were it to describe a street brawl, a ludicrous situation, a whimsical character, or with venomous prejudice to gibbet some enemy. This individuality — the peculiar spirit of the author which can be felt rather than described — is present in the dedication of Fathom to Doctor — — — , who is no other than Smollett himself, and a candid revelation of his character, by the way, this dedication contains. It is present, too, in the opening chapters, which show, likewise, in the picture of Fathom’s mother, something of the author’s peculiar “talent for invention.” Subsequently, however, there is no denying that the Smollett invention and the Smollett spirit both flag. And yet, in a way, Fathom displays more invention than any of the author’s novels; it is based far less than any other on personal experience. Unfortunately such thorough-going invention was not suited to Smollett’s genius. The result is, that while uninteresting as a novel of contemporary manners, Fathom has an interest of its own in that it reveals a new side of its author. We think of Smollett, generally, as a rambling storyteller, a rational, unromantic man of the world, who fills his pages with his own oddly-metamorphosed acquaintances and experiences. 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. Though this is notably less readable than the author’s earlier works, still the wonder is that when the man is so far “off his beat,” he should yet know so well how to meet the strange conditions which confront him. To one whose idea of Smollett’s genius is formed entirely by Random and Pickle and Humphry Clinker, Ferdinand Count Fathom will offer many surprises. The first of these is the comparative lifelessness of the book. True, here again are action and incident galore, but generally unaccompanied by that rough Georgian hurly-burly, common in Smollett, which is so interesting to contemplate from a comfortable distance, and which goes so far towards making his fiction seem real. Nor are the characters, for the most part, life-like enough to be interesting. There is an apparent exception, to be sure, in the hero’s mother, already mentioned, the hardened camp-follower, whom we confidently expect to become vitalised after the savage fashion of Smollett’s characters. But, alas! we have no chance to learn the lady’s style of conversation, for the few words that come from her lips are but partially characteristic; we have only too little chance to learn her manners and customs. In the fourth chapter, while she is making sure with her dagger that all those on the field of battle whom she wishes to rifle are really dead, an officer of the hussars, who has been watching her lucrative progress, unfeelingly puts a brace of bullets into the lady’s brain, just as she raises her hand to smite him to the heart. Perhaps it is as well that she is thus removed before our disappointment at the non-fulfilment of her promise becomes poignant. So far as we may judge from the other personages of Count Fathom, even this interesting Amazon would sooner or later have turned into a wooden figure, with a label giving the necessary information as to her character. Such certainly is her son, Fathom, the hero of the book. Because he is placarded, “Shrewd villain of monstrous inhumanity,” we are fain to accept him for what his creator intended; but seldom in word or deed is he a convincingly real villain. His friend and foil, the noble young Count de Melvil, is no more alive than he; and equally wooden are Joshua, the high-minded, saint-like Jew, and that tedious, foolish Don Diego. Neither is the heroine alive, the peerless Monimia, but then, in her case, want of vitality is not surprising; the presence of it would amaze us. If she were a woman throbbing with life, she would be different from Smollett’s other heroines. The “second lady” of the melodrama, Mademoiselle de Melvil, though by no means vivified, is yet more real than her sister-in-law. The fact that they are mostly inanimate figures is not the only surprise given us by the personages of Count Fathom. It is a surprise to find few of them strikingly whimsical; it is a surprise to find them in some cases far more distinctly conceived than any of the people in Roderick Random or Peregrine Pickle. In the second of these, we saw Smollett beginning to understand the use of incident to indicate consistent development of character. In Count Fathom, he seems fully to understand this principle of art, though he has not learned to apply it successfully. And so, in spite of an excellent conception, Fathom, as I have said, is unreal. After all his villainies, which he perpetrates without any apparent qualms of conscience, it is incredible that he should honestly repent of his crimes. We are much inclined to doubt when we read that “his vice and ambition was now quite mortified within him,” the subsequent testimony of Matthew Bramble, Esq., in Humphry Clinker, to the contrary, notwithstanding. Yet Fathom up to this point is consistently drawn, and drawn for a purpose: — to show that cold-blooded roguery, though successful for a while, will come to grief in the end. To heighten the effect of his scoundrel, Smollett develops parallel with him the virtuous Count de Melvil. The author’s scheme of thus using one character as the foil of another, though not conspicuous for its originality, shows a decided advance in the theory of constructive technique. Only, as I have said, Smollett’s execution is now defective. “But,” one will naturally ask, “if Fathom lacks the amusing, and not infrequently stimulating, hurly-burly of Smollett’s former novels; if its characters, though well-conceived, are seldom divertingly fantastic and never thoroughly animate; what makes the book interesting?” The surprise will be greater than ever when the answer is given that, to a large extent, the plot makes Fathom interesting. Yes, Smollett, hitherto indifferent to structure, has here written a story in which the plot itself, often clumsy though it may be, engages a reader’s attention. One actually wants to know whether the young Count is ever going to receive consolation for his sorrows and inflict justice on his basely ungrateful pensioner. And when, finally, all turns out as it should, one is amazed to find how many of the people in the book have helped towards the designed conclusion. Not all of them, indeed, nor all of the adventures, are indispensable, but it is manifest at the end that much, which, for the time, most readers think irrelevant — such as Don Diego’s history — is, after all, essential. It has already been said that in Count Fathom Smollett appears to some extent as a romanticist, and this is another fact which lends interest to the book. That he had a powerful imagination is not a surprise. Any one versed in Smollett has already seen it in the remarkable situations which he has put before us in his earlier works. These do not indicate, however, that Smollett possessed the imagination which could excite romantic interest; for in Roderick Random and in Peregrine Pickle, the wonderful situations serve chiefly to amuse. In Fathom, however, there are some designed to excite horror; and one, at least, is eminently successful. The hero’s night in the wood between Bar-le-duc and Chalons was no doubt more blood-curdling to our eighteenth-century ancestors than it is to us, who have become acquainted with scores of similar situations in the small number of exciting romances which belong to literature, and in the greater number which do not. Still, even to-day, a reader, with his taste jaded by trashy novels, will be conscious of Smollett’s power, and of several thrills, likewise, as he reads about Fathom’s experience in the loft in which the beldame locks him to pass the night. This situation is melodramatic rather than romantic, as the word is used technically in application to eighteenth and nineteenth-century literature. There is no little in Fathom, however, which is genuinely romantic in the latter sense. Such is the imprisonment of the Countess in the castle-tower, whence she waves her handkerchief to the young Count, her son and would-be rescuer. And especially so is the scene in the church, when Renaldo (the very name is romantic) visits at midnight the supposed grave of his lady-love. While he was waiting for the sexton to open the door, his “soul . . . was wound up to the highest pitch of enthusiastic sorrow. The uncommon darkness, . . . the solemn silence, and lonely situation of the place, conspired with the occasion of his coming, and the dismal images of his fancy, to produce a real rapture of gloomy expectation, which the whole world could not have persuaded him to disappoint. The clock struck twelve, the owl screeched from the ruined battlement, the door was opened by the sexton, who, by the light of a glimmering taper, conducted the despairing lover to a dreary aisle, and stamped upon the ground with his foot, saying, ‘Here the young lady lies interred.’” We have here such an amount of the usual romantic machinery of the “grave-yard” school of poets — that school of which Professor W. L. Phelps calls Young, in his Night Thoughts, the most “conspicuous exemplar” — that one is at first inclined to think Smollett poking fun at it. The context, however, seems to prove that he was perfectly serious. It is interesting, then, as well as surprising, to find traces of the romantic spirit in his fiction over ten years before Walpole’s Castle of Otranto. It is also interesting to find so much melodramatic feeling in him, because it makes stronger the connection between him and his nineteenth-century disciple, Dickens. From all that I have said, it must not be thought that the usual Smollett is always, or almost always, absent from Count Fathom. I have spoken of the dedication and of the opening chapters as what we might expect from his pen. There are, besides, true Smollett strokes in the scenes in the prison from which Melvil rescues Fathom, and there is a good deal of the satirical Smollett fun in the description of Fathom’s ups and downs, first as the petted beau, and then as the fashionable doctor. In chronicling the latter meteoric career, Smollett had already observed the peculiarity of his countrymen which Thackeray was fond of harping on in the next century — “the maxim which universally prevails among the English people . . . to overlook, . . . on their return to the metropolis, all the connexions they may have chanced to acquire during their residence at any of the medical wells. And this social disposition is so scrupulously maintained, that two persons who live in the most intimate correspondence at Bath or Tunbridge, shall, in four-and-twenty hours . . . meet in St. James’s Park, without betraying the least token of recognition.” And good, too, is the way in which, as Dr. Fathom goes rapidly down the social hill, he makes excuses for his declining splendour. His chariot was overturned “with a hideous crash” at such danger to himself, “that he did not believe he should ever hazard himself again in any sort of wheel carriage.” He turned off his men for maids, because “men servants are generally impudent, lazy, debauched, or dishonest.” To avoid the din of the street, he shifted his lodgings into a quiet, obscure court. And so forth and so on, in the true Smollett vein. But, after all, such of the old sparks are struck only occasionally. Apart from its plot, which not a few nineteenth-century writers of detective-stories might have improved, The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom is less interesting for itself than any other piece of fiction from Smollett’s pen. For a student of Smollett, however, it is highly interesting as showing the author’s romantic, melodramatic tendencies, and the growth of his constructive technique...FROM THE BOOKS.

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Author : T. Smollett
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Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
Release Date : 2024-04-01

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