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Tobias Smollett The Adventures Of Ferdinand Count Fathom, Part I

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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. [mehr]

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Tobias Smollett The Adventures Of Ferdinand Count Fathom, Part II

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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. [mehr]

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Tobias Smollett The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom

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Tobias George Smollett (19 March 1721 – 17 September 1771) was a Scottish poet and author. He was best known for his picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751), which influenced later novelists such as Charles Dickens. George Orwell admired Smollett very much. His novels were amended liberally by printers; a definitive edition of each of his works was edited by Dr. O. M. Brack, Jr. to correct variants Smollett was born at Dalquhurn, now part of Renton, in present-day West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. He was the fourth son of Archibald Smollett of Bonhill, a judge and land-owner who died about 1726, and Barbara Cunningham, who died about 1766. He was educated at the University of Glasgow, where he qualified as a surgeon; it has been asserted by some biographers that he then proceeded to the University of Edinburgh but left without taking a degree. His career in medicine came second to his literary ambitions; in 1739 he went to London to seek his fortune as a dramatist. Unsuccessful, he obtained a commission as a naval surgeon on HMS Chichester and travelled to Jamaica, where he settled down for several years. In 1742 he served as a surgeon during the disastrous campaign to capture Cartagena. On his return, he set up practice in Downing Street and married a wealthy Jamaican heiress, Anne "Nancy" Lascelles (1721–1791), in 1747. She was a daughter of William Lascelles. They had one child, a daughter Elizabeth, who died aged 15 years about 1762. He had a brother, Capt. James Smollet, and a sister, Jean Smollett, who married Alexander Telfair of Symington, Ayrshire. Jean succeeded to Bonhill after the death of her cousin-german, Mr. Commissary Smollett, and resumed her maiden name of Smollett in 1780. They lived in St. John Street off Canongate, Edinburgh and had a son who was in the Military. [mehr]

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Tobias Smollett The Adventures Of Ferdinand Count Fathom Part I

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Cardinal De Retz Very Judiciously Observes, That All Historians Must Of Necessity Be Subject To Mistakes, In Explaining The Motives Of Those Actions They Record, Unless They Derive Their Intelligence From The Candid Confession Of The Person Whose Character They Represent; And That, Of Consequence, Every Man Of Importance Ought To Write His Own Memoirs, Provided He Has Honesty Enough To Tell The Truth, Without Suppressing Any Circumstance That May Tend To The Information Of The Reader. This, However, Is A Requisite That, I Am Afraid, Would Be Very Rarely Found Among The Number Of Those Who Exhibit Their Own Portraits To The Public. Indeed, I Will Venture To Say, That, How Upright Soever A Man's Intentions May Be, He Will, [mehr]

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Tobias Smollett The Adventures Of Ferdinand Count Fathom Part 2

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Just As He Entered These Mansions Of Misery, His Ears Were Invaded With A Hoarse And Dreadful Voice, Exclaiming, "You, Bess Beetle, Score A Couple Of Fresh Eggs, A Pennyworth Of Butter, And Half A Pint Of Mountain To The King; And Stop Credit Till The Bill Is Paid:--He Is Now Debtor For Fifteen Shillings And Sixpence, And D--N Me If I Trust Him One Farthing More, If He Was The Best King In Christendom. And, D'ye Hear, Send Ragged-Head With Five Pounds Of Potatoes For Major Macleaver's Supper, And Let Him Have What Drink He Wants; The Fat Widow Gentlewoman From Pimlico Has Promised To Quit His Score. Sir Mungo Barebones May Have Some Hasty Pudding And Small Beer, Though I Don't Expect To See His Coin, [mehr]

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Tobias Smollett The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom, Part I.

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Tobias George Smollett (19 March 1721 – 17 September 1771) was a Scottish poet and author. He was best known for hispicaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751), which influenced later novelists such as Charles Dickens. George Orwell admired Smollett very much. His novels were amended liberally by printers; a definitive edition of each of his works was edited by Dr. O. M. Brack, Jr. to correct variants. [mehr]

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Tobias Smollett The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom, Part II.

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Tobias George Smollett (19 March 1721 – 17 September 1771) was a Scottish poet and author. He was best known for hispicaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751), which influenced later novelists such as Charles Dickens. George Orwell admired Smollett very much. His novels were amended liberally by printers; a definitive edition of each of his works was edited by Dr. O. M. Brack, Jr. to correct variants. [mehr]

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Tobias Smollett The Adventures Of Ferdinand Count Fathom, Part 2 (Fiscle Part 3)

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Just As He Entered These Mansions Of Misery, His Ears Were Invaded With A Hoarse And Dreadful Voice, Exclaiming, "You, Bess Beetle, Score A Couple Of Fresh Eggs, A Pennyworth Of Butter, And Half A Pint Of Mountain To The King; And Stop Credit Till The Bill Is Paid:--He Is Now Debtor For Fifteen Shillings And Sixpence, And D--N Me If I Trust Him One Farthing More, If He Was The Best King In Christendom. And, D'ye Hear, Send Ragged-Head With Five Pounds Of Potatoes For Major Macleaver's Supper, And Let Him Have What Drink He Wants; The Fat Widow Gentlewoman From Pimlico Has Promised To Quit His Score. Sir Mungo Barebones May Have Some Hasty Pudding And Small Beer, Though I Don't Expect To See His Coin, No More Than To Receive The Eighteen Pence I Laid Out For A Pair Of Breeches To His Backside--What Then? He's A Quiet Sort Of A Body, And A Great Scholar, And It Was A Scandal To The Place To See Him Going About In That Naked Condition. As For The Mad Frenchman With The Beard, If You Give Him So Much As A Cheese-Paring, You B--Ch, I'll Send You Back To The Hole, Among Your Old Companions; An Impudent Dog! I'll Teach Him To Draw His Sword Upon The Governor Of An English County Jail. What! I Suppose He Thought He Had To Do With A French Hang-Tang-Dang, Rabbit Him! He Shall Eat His White Feather, Before I Give Him Credit For A Morsel Of Bread." [mehr]

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