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Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom

by T. Smollett

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  1. 1Introduction
  2. 2To Doctor ——
  3. 3Chapter One — Some sage Observations that naturally introduce our i…
  4. 4Chapter Two — A superficial View of our Hero’s Infancy
  5. 5Chapter Three — He is initiated in a Military Life, and has the goo…
  6. 6Chapter Four — His Mother’s Prowess and Death; together with some I…
  7. 7Chapter Five — A brief Detail of his Education
  8. 8Chapter Six — He meditates Schemes of Importance
  9. 9Chapter Seven — Engages in Partnership with a female Associate, in…
  10. 10Chapter Eight — Their first Attempt; with a Digression which some R…
  11. 11Chapter Nine — The Confederates change their Battery, and achieve a…
  12. 12Chapter Ten — They Proceed to Levy Contributions With Great Success…
  13. 13Chapter Eleven — Fathom makes various Efforts in the World of Galla…
  14. 14Chapter Twelve — He effects a Lodgment in the House of a rich Jeweller
  15. 15Chapter Thirteen — He is exposed to a most perilous Incident in the…
  16. 16Chapter Fourteen — He is reduced to a dreadful Dilemma, in conseque…
  17. 17Chapter Fifteen — But at length succeeds in his Attempt upon both
  18. 18Chapter Sixteen — His Success begets a blind Security, by which he…
  19. 19Chapter Seventeen — The Step-Dame’s Suspicions Being Awakened, She…
  20. 20Chapter Eighteen — Our Hero departs from Vienna, and quits the Doma…
  21. 21Chapter Nineteen — He Puts Himself Under the Guidance of His Associ…
  22. 22Chapter Twenty — He prepares a Stratagem but finds himself counterm…
  23. 23Chapter Twenty-One — He falls upon Scylla, seeking to avoid Charybdis
  24. 24Chapter Twenty-Two — He arrives at Paris, and is pleased with his R…
  25. 25Chapter Twenty-Three — Acquits himself with Address in a Nocturnal…
  26. 26Chapter Twenty-Four — He overlooks the Advances of his Friends, and…
  27. 27Chapter Twenty-Five — He bears his Fate like a Philosopher; and con…
  28. 28Chapter Twenty-Six — The History of the Noble Castilian
  29. 29Chapter Twenty-Seven — A flagrant Instance of Fathom’s Virtue, in t…
  30. 30Chapter Twenty-Eight — Some Account of his Fellow-Travellers
  31. 31Chapter Twenty-Nine — Another providential Deliverance from the Eff…
  32. 32Chapter Thirty — The singular Manner of Fathom’s Attack and Triumph…
  33. 33Chapter Thirty-One — He by accident encounters his old Friend, with…
  34. 34Chapter Thirty-Two — He appears in the great World with universal A…
  35. 35Chapter Thirty-Three — He Attracts the Envy and Ill Offices of the…
  36. 36Chapter Thirty-Four — He Performs Another Exploit, That Conveys a T…
  37. 37Chapter Thirty-Five — He repairs to Bristol Spring, where he reigns…
  38. 38Chapter Thirty-Six — He Is Smitten With the Charms of a Female Adve…
  39. 39Chapter Thirty-Seven — Fresh Cause for Exerting His Equanimity and…
  40. 40Chapter Thirty-Eight — The Biter is Bit
  41. 41Part II — Chapter Thirty-Nine — Our Adventurer is made acquainted w…
  42. 42Chapter Forty — He contemplates Majesty and its Satellites in Eclipse
  43. 43Chapter Forty-One — One Quarrel is compromised, and another decided…
  44. 44Chapter Forty-Two — An unexpected Rencontre, and a happy Revolution…
  45. 45Chapter Forty-Three — Fathom Justifies the Proverb, “What’s Bred in…
  46. 46Chapter Forty-Four — Anecdotes of Poverty, and Experiments for the…
  47. 47Chapter Forty-Five — Renaldo’s Distress deepens, and Fathom’s Plot…
  48. 48Chapter Forty-Six — Our Adventurer Becomes Absolute in His Power Ov…
  49. 49Chapter Forty-Seven — The Art of Borrowing further explained, and a…
  50. 50Chapter Forty-Eight — Count Fathom unmasks his Battery; is repulsed…
  51. 51Chapter Forty-Nine — Monimia’s Honour is protected by the Interposi…
  52. 52Chapter Fifty — Fathom shifts the Scene, and appears in a new Chara…
  53. 53Chapter Fifty-One — Triumphs over a Medical Rival
  54. 54Chapter Fifty-Two — Repairs to the Metropolis, and enrols himself a…
  55. 55Chapter Fifty-Three — Acquires Employment in consequence of a lucky…
  56. 56Chapter Fifty-Four — His Eclipse, and gradual Declination
  57. 57Chapter Fifty-Five — After divers unsuccessful Efforts, he has reco…
  58. 58Chapter Fifty-Six — In which his Fortune is effectually strangled
  59. 59Chapter Fifty-Seven — Fathom being safely housed, the Reader is ent…
  60. 60Chapter Fifty-Eight — Renaldo abridges the Proceedings at Law, and…
  61. 61Chapter Fifty-Nine — He Is the Messenger of Happiness to His Sister…
  62. 62Chapter Sixty — He Recompenses the Attachment of His Friend; and Re…
  63. 63Chapter Sixty-One
  64. 64Chapter Sixty-Two
  65. 65Chapter Sixty-Three
  66. 66Chapter Sixty-Four
  67. 67Chapter Sixty-Five
  68. 68Chapter Sixty-Six
  69. 69Chapter Sixty-Seven

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