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Fiction

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom

T. Smollett

Reading time
about 11.5 h
Length
160,009 words · 384 pages in print
Structure
59 chapters · 1 front-matter section
Language
English
Era
Enlightenment

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Contents

  1. Note
  2. Introduction
  3. Chapter One — Some Sage Observations That Naturally Introduce Our Important History
  4. Chapter Two — A Superficial View of Our Hero’s Infancy
  5. Chapter Three — He Is Initiated in a Military Life, and Has the Good Fortune to Acquire a Generous Patron
  6. Chapter Four — His Mother’s Prowess and Death; Together with Some Instances of His Own Sagacity
  7. Chapter Five — A Brief Detail of His Education
  8. Chapter Six — He Meditates Schemes of Importance
  9. Chapter Seven — Engages in Partnership with a Female Associate, in Order to Put His Talents in Action
  10. Chapter Eight — Their First Attempt; With a Digression Which Some Readers May Think Impertinent
  11. Chapter Nine — The Confederates Change Their Battery, and Achieve a Remarkable Adventure
  12. Chapter Ten — They Proceed to Levy Contributions with Great Success, Until Our Hero Sets Out with the Young Count for Vienna, Where He Enters Into League with Another Adventurer
  13. Chapter Eleven — Fathom Makes Various Efforts in the World of Gallantry
  14. Chapter Twelve — He Effects a Lodgment in the House of a Rich Jeweller
  15. Chapter Thirteen — He Is Exposed to a Most Perilous Incident in the Course of His Intrigue with the Daughter
  16. Chapter Fourteen — He Is Reduced to a Dreadful Dilemma, in Consequence of an Assignation with the Wife
  17. Chapter Fifteen — But at Length Succeeds in His Attempt Upon Both
  18. Chapter Sixteen — His Success Begets a Blind Security, by Which He Is Once Again Well-Nigh Entrapped in His Dulcinea’s Apartment
  19. Chapter Seventeen — The Step-Dame’s Suspicions Being Awakened, She Lays a Snare for Our Adventurer, from Which He Is Delivered by the Interposition of His Good Genius
  20. Chapter Eighteen — Our Hero Departs from Vienna, and Quits the Domain of Venus for the Rough Field of Mars
  21. Chapter Nineteen — He Puts Himself Under the Guidance of His Associate, and Stumbles Upon the French Camp, Where He Finishes His Military Career
  22. Chapter Twenty — He Prepares a Stratagem but Finds Himself Countermined—Proceeds on His Journey, and Is Overtaken by a Terrible Tempest
  23. Chapter Twenty-One — He Falls Upon Scylla, Seeking to Avoid Charybdis
  24. Chapter Twenty-Two — He Arrives at Paris, and Is Pleased with His Reception
  25. Chapter Twenty-Three — Acquits Himself with Address in a Nocturnal Riot
  26. Chapter Twenty-Four — He Overlooks the Advances of His Friends, and Smarts Severely for His Neglect
  27. Chapter Twenty-Five — He Bears His Fate Like a Philosopher; And Contracts Acquaintance with a Very Remarkable Personage
  28. Chapter Twenty-Six — The History of the Noble Castilian
  29. Chapter Twenty-Seven — A Flagrant Instance of Fathom’s Virtue, in the Manner of His Retreat to England
  30. Chapter Twenty-Eight — Some Account of His Fellow-Travellers
  31. Chapter Twenty-Nine — Another Providential Deliverance from the Effects of the Smuggler’s Ingenious Conjecture
  32. Chapter Thirty — The Singular Manner of Fathom’s Attack and Triumph Over the Virtue of the Fair Elenor
  33. Chapter Thirty-One — He by Accident Encounters His Old Friend, with Whom He Holds a Conference, and Renews a Treaty
  34. Chapter Thirty-Two — He Appears in the Great World with Universal Applause and Admiration
  35. Chapter Thirty-Three — He Attracts the Envy and Ill Offices of the Minor Knights of His Own Order, Over Whom He Obtains a Complete Victory
  36. Chapter Thirty-Four — He Performs Another Exploit, That Conveys a True Idea of His Gratitude and Honour
  37. Chapter Thirty-Five — He Repairs to Bristol Spring, Where He Reigns Paramount During the Whole Season
  38. Chapter Thirty-Six — He Is Smitten with the Charms of a Female Adventurer, Whose Allurements Subject Him to a New Vicissitude of Fortune
  39. Chapter Thirty-Seven — Fresh Cause for Exerting His Equanimity and Fortitude
  40. Chapter Thirty-Eight — The Biter Is Bit
  41. Part II
  42. Chapter Thirty-Nine — Our Adventurer Is Made Acquainted with a New Scene of Life
  43. Chapter Forty — He Contemplates Majesty and Its Satellites in Eclipse
  44. Chapter Forty-One — One Quarrel Is Compromised, and Another Decided by Unusual Arms
  45. Chapter Forty-Two — An Unexpected Rencontre, and a Happy Revolution in the Affairs of Our Adventurer
  46. Chapter Forty-Three — Fathom Justifies the Proverb, “What’s Bred in the Bone Will Never Come Out of the Flesh.”
  47. Chapter Forty-Four — Anecdotes of Poverty, and Experiments for the Benefit of Those Whom It May Concern
  48. Chapter Forty-Five — Renaldo’s Distress Deepens, and Fathom’s Plot Thickens
  49. Chapter Forty-Six — Our Adventurer Becomes Absolute in His Power Over the Passions of His Friend, and Effects One Half of His Aim
  50. Chapter Forty-Seven — The Art of Borrowing Further Explained, and an Account of a Strange Phenomenon
  51. Chapter Forty-Eight — Count Fathom Unmasks His Battery; Is Repulsed; And Varies His Operations Without Effect
  52. Chapter Forty-Nine — Monimia’s Honour Is Protected by the Interposition of Heaven
  53. Chapter Fifty — Fathom Shifts the Scene, and Appears in a New Character
  54. Chapter Fifty-One — Triumphs Over a Medical Rival
  55. Chapter Fifty-Two — Repairs to the Metropolis, and Enrols Himself Among the Sons of Paean
  56. Chapter Fifty-Three — Acquires Employment in Consequence of a Lucky Miscarriage
  57. Chapter Fifty-Four — His Eclipse, and Gradual Declination
  58. Chapter Fifty-Five — After Divers Unsuccessful Efforts, He Has Recourse to the Matrimonial Noose
  59. Chapter Fifty-Six — In Which His Fortune Is Effectually Strangled
  60. Chapter Fifty-Seven — Fathom Being Safely Housed, the Reader Is Entertained with a Retrospect
  61. Chapter Fifty-Eight — Renaldo Abridges the Proceedings at Law, and Approves Himself the Son of His Father
  62. Chapter Fifty-Nine — He Is the Messenger of Happiness to His Sister, Who Removes the Film Which Had Long Obstructed His Penetration, with Regard to Count Fathom

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1721–1771 · Enlightenment

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