The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete — T. (Tobias) Smollett
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Beginning
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
by Tobias Smollett
Titlepage
Frontispiece of Part One
COMPLETE IN TWO PARTS
With the Author’s Preface, and an Introduction by G. H. Maynadier, Ph.D. Department of English, Harvard University.
INTRODUCTION
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…
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