The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom

Name: The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
Author: Tobias Smollett
ISBN: 9781802566949

Author: Tobias Smollett
Read by: Finian Silverwood
Language: English
Length: 15 hours 53 minutes
ISBN: 9781802566949
Published: 25 June 2025
Imprint: Fantastica

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Ferdinand Count Fathom climbs by cruelty, not charm: a cold rogue playing the nobleman across Europe, living off other people’s trust until the schemes snap back. Smollett’s darkest picaresque, spoken as satire with malice in the lead and greed as the only true companion.

Author

Tobias Smollett (1721–1771) wrote picaresque novels of sailors, scoundrels, and a Scotland on the make. A surgeon before he was a novelist, he never lost the medical stare: bodies, ships, and social climbers observed without perfume. Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, and Humphry Clinker made English fiction louder, ruder, and more mobile. The comedy is rough; the letters in Clinker still feel like a nation talking to itself.

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Ebook · English · Fantastica9781911535010