Ferdinand, Count Fathom (Works of Tobias Smollett)

by Tobias Smollett (Author), Jerry C. Beasley (Editor)

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  Paperback
  1992

  $7.62

  The hero of Ferdinand Count Fathom (1753) is a monster of treachery and fraud. Fate and coincidence play a large part in his picaresque progress through England and Europe, and much of the narrative is written in a mock-heroic style. This critical study explains the literary and historical background of the 18th-century world in which the book was written.