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The first novel by a major English writer that is devoted to a thoroughgoing portrait of villainy, The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom chronicles the life of an aberrant criminal character. Filled with striking satiric thrusts at the legal, medical, and military establishments of mid-eighteenth-century Europe and England, the novel reveals Tobias Smollett's capacities as a commentator on contemporary life. First published in 1753, Ferdinand Count Fathom is an experimental work that explores the relations between history and fiction and introduces, for the first time in the English novel, episodes of Gothic melodrama. Too long neglected and never before available in a carefully prepared scholarly edition, Ferdinand Count Fathom may now be read, understood, and appreciated against the literary and historical background of the eighteenth-century world. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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> On (re)découvre ici le pendant littéraire des peintures de son contemporain Hogarth, où l'immoralité et le manque de scrupules sont les traits principaux d'un roué plus vrai que nature. La biographie, brillamment contée, de Ferdiand, pseudo comte Fathom nous fais même oublier les situations souvent sordides dans lesquelles sont plongées les victimes de ce vil personnage qui n'a rien à envier aux vauriens du XXe siècle.
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