The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom (The Works of Tobias Smollett) - Tapa blanda

Smollett, Tobias George

 
9780820346014: The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom (The Works of Tobias Smollett)
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ISBN 10: 0820346012 ISBN 13: 9780820346014
Editorial: University of Georgia Press, 2014

Sinopsis

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.

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Acerca del autor

TOBIAS SMOLLETT (1721–1771) was a novelist, playwright, journalist, historian, travel writer, critic, translator, editor, and compiler―an eighteenth-century man of letters in the fullest sense of the phrase.

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Editorial
University of Georgia Press
Año de publicación
2014
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0820346012
ISBN 13 
9780820346014
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
526
Editor
Brack O. M. Jr., Beasley Jerry C.
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
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9780140433074: The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom (Classics)

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  0140433074 ISBN 13:  9780140433074
Editorial: Penguin Classics, 1990
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