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The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom

By: Tobias George Smollett

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The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom

By: Tobias George Smollett

First published in 1753, this experimental work explores the relations between history and fiction while introducing episodes of Gothic melodrama. Filled with satiric thrusts at the legal, medical, and military establishments of mid-eighteenth-century Europe, the novel reveals Smollett's capacities as a commentator on contemporary life.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820346012

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9780820346014

Travels in France and Italy

By: Tobias Smollett

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Travels in France and Italy

By: Tobias Smollett

At the age of 42, following the death of his 15-year-old daughter and in failing health, Tobias Smollett embarked on a yearlong journey through France and Italy in 1763. Written as a series of letters, Travels in France and Italy describes in a delightfully grouchy manner his miserable experiences in each and every city he visited. Described by some as the "champion bad traveler," Smolett argues with his hosts and fellow travelers and holds in contempt not only French and Italian art and politics, but the Catholic religion as well. The intolerance and prejudice he displays makes for what critics call a thoroughly entertaining and perceptive travel book.TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT (1721-1771) was a Scottish author best known for his picaresque novels about the adventures and expeditions of such characters as Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, and Humphrey Clinker. He was educated as a surgeon, joined the Navy, and began writing, all without much success. His whole life seemed to be a series of turns for the worst. His last words are said to have been "All is well, my dear.

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437

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Cosimo, Inc.

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1596055707

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9781596055704

The History and Adventures of an Atom

By: Tobias George Smollett

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The History and Adventures of an Atom

By: Tobias George Smollett

In the novel, a London haberdasher relates extraordinary tales of ancient Japan as dictated to him by an omniscient atom that has lived within the bodies of great figures of state. This edition is the first to appear since 1926 and provides a carefully prepared text, historical annotations, and an accurate key to personages and places.

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448

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University of Georgia Press

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0820346063

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9780820346069

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

By: Tobias George Smollett

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The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

By: Tobias George Smollett

Before I was born, [my aunt] had gone such lengths in the way of flirting with a recruiting officer, that her reputation was a little singed. She afterwards made advances to the curate of the parish...-from "To Sir Watkin Phillips, of Jesus college, Oxon, Bath, May 6"An often overlooked but nevertheless important name in the history of the English novel, Tobias Smollett greatly influenced Dickens, with his unsentimental depiction of poverty, and was a favorite of William Makepeace Thackeray, who called The Expedition of Humphry Clinker "the most laughable story that has ever been written since the goodly art of novel-writing began."An early example of the epistolary novel, consisting entirely of letters written between its characters, this is Smollett's last book, completed and published just before his death in 1771. Far less brutal than his earlier work, it is the comic story of Humphry Clinker, a poor lad who joins a touring party of aristocrats on their journey through city and country. Smollett's satire on the well-to-do and the fripperies that consumed their society echoes in countless writers who came after him, from Jane Austen to "Bridget Jones" with her diary.Scottish writer TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT (1721-1771) trained as a surgeon but found far more success as a novelist; he also worked as an editor and translator. Among his works are Roderick Random (1748) and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751).

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Cosimo, Inc.

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159605509X

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9781596055094

The Adventures of Count Fathom

By: Tobias George Smollett

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By: Tobias George Smollett

...There are, besides, true Smollett strokes in the scenes in the prison from which Melvil rescues Fathom, and there is a good deal of the satirical Smollett fun in the description of Fathom's ups and downs, first as the petted beau, and then as the fashionable doctor. In chronicling the latter meteoric career, Smollett had already observed the peculiarity of his countrymen which Thackeray was fond of harping on in the next century -- the maxim which universally prevails among the English people ...to overlook, ...on their return to the metropolis, all the connections they may have chanced to acquire during their residence at any of the medical wells...

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1592243673

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Book's by Tobias George 1721-1771 Smollett

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom

Travels in France and Italy

Travels in France and Italy

The History and Adventures of an Atom

The History and Adventures of an Atom

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

The Adventures of Count Fathom

The Adventures of Count Fathom

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