Books with author Tobias George Smollett

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• Digitized illustrations (Kindle-friendly). I have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original.• A neat table of contents for quicker navigation• Fonts have been optimized and tested for display on Kindle and other e-readers• This is the COMPLETE, unabridged edition, complete in two partsThe Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom was Smollett's third novel and before being rediscovered met with less success than his two previous more picaresque tales. The central character is a villainous dandy who cheats, swindles and philanders his way across Europe and England with little concern for the law or the welfare of others. The son of an equally disreputable mother, Smollett himself comments that "Fathom justifies the proverb, 'What's bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh". Sir Walter Scott commented that the novel paints a "complete picture of human depravity"

Excerpt from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom: In Two VolumesAs the occupations of his mother would not conveniently permit her to l'uckle this her firlt-born at her own breaft, and thole happy ages were now no more, in which the charge of our! Ing a child might be left to the next goat or the-wolf, {he refolved to im prove Upon the ordinances of nature, and fotter him with a juice much more energick than the milk of goat, wolf, or woman; this was no other than that delicious necrtar, which, as we have al ready hinted, the to cordially dil'rributed from a final] calk that hung before her, depending from her (boulders by a lea thern zone. Thus determined, ene he was yet twelve days old, (he enclofed him in acanvas knapfack, which being adjulted to her neck, fell down upon her back, and balanced the cargo that relied on her bofom.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.