ADVENTURES OF COUNT FATHOM, VOL II

About this eBook

Author

Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771

Title

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Volume 02

Credits

Produced by Tapio Riikonen and David Widger

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Adventure stories

Category

Text

eBook-No.

6760

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6760

Release Date

October 1, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE ADVENTURES OF FERDINAND COUNT FATHOM
2. 2.by Tobias Smollett — COMPLETE IN TWO PARTS
3. 3.PART II. — With the Author's Preface, and an Introduction by G. H. Maynadier, Ph.D. Department of English, Harvard University. — CONTENTS — THE ADVENTURES OF FERDINAND COUNT FATHOM — CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE OUR ADVENTURER IS MADE ACQUAINTED WITH A NEW SCENE OF LIFE. — CHAPTER FORTY HE CONTEMPLATES MAJESTY AND ITS SATELLITES IN ECLIPSE. — CHAPTER FORTY-ONE ONE QUARREL IS COMPROMISED, AND ANOTHER DECIDED BY UNUSUAL ARMS. — CHAPTER FORTY-TWO AN UNEXPECTED RENCONTRE, AND A HAPPY REVOLUTION IN THE AFFAIRS OF OUR ADVENTURER. — CHAPTER FORTY-THREE FATHOM JUSTIFIES THE PROVERB, "WHAT'S BRED IN THE BONE WILL NEVER COME OUT OF THE FLESH." — CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR ANECDOTES OF POVERTY, AND EXPERIMENTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. — CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE RENALDO'S DISTRESS DEEPENS, AND FATHOM'S PLOT THICKENS. — CHAPTER FORTY-SIX OUR ADVENTURER BECOMES ABSOLUTE IN HIS POWER OVER THE PASSIONS OF HIS FRIEND, AND EFFECTS ONE HALF OF HIS AIM. — CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN THE ART OF BORROWING FURTHER EXPLAINED, AND AN ACCOUNT OF A STRANGE PHENOMENON. — CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT COUNT FATHOM UNMASKS HIS BATTERY; IS REPULSED; AND VARIES HIS OPERATIONS WITHOUT EFFECT. — CHAPTER FORTY-NINE MONIMIA'S HONOUR IS PROTECTED BY THE INTERPOSITION OF HEAVEN. — CHAPTER FIFTY FATHOM SHIFTS THE SCENE, AND APPEARS IN A NEW CHARACTER. — CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE TRIUMPHS OVER A MEDICAL RIVAL. — CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO REPAIRS TO THE METROPOLIS, AND ENROLS HIMSELF AMONG THE SONS OF PAEAN. — CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE ACQUIRES EMPLOYMENT IN CONSEQUENCE OF A LUCKY MISCARRIAGE. — CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR HIS ECLIPSE, AND GRADUAL DECLINATION. — CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE AFTER DIVERS UNSUCCESSFUL EFFORTS, HE HAS RECOURSE TO THE MATRIMONIAL NOOSE. — CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX IN WHICH HIS FORTUNE IS EFFECTUALLY STRANGLED. — CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN FATHOM BEING SAFELY HOUSED, THE READER IS ENTERTAINED WITH A RETROSPECT. — CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT RENALDO ABRIDGES THE PROCEEDINGS AT LAW, AND APPROVES HIMSELF THE SON OF HIS FATHER. — 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. — CHAPTER SIXTY HE RECOMPENSES THE ATTACHMENT OF HIS FRIEND; AND RECEIVES A LETTER THAT REDUCES HIM TO THE VERGE OF DEATH AND DISTRACTION. — CHAPTER SIXTY-ONE RENALDO MEETS WITH A LIVING MONUMENT OF JUSTICE, AND ENCOUNTERS A PERSONAGE OF SOME NOTE IN THESE MEMOIRS. — CHAPTER SIXTY-TWO HIS RETURN TO ENGLAND, AND MIDNIGHT PILGRIMAGE TO MONIMIA'S TOMB. — CHAPTER SIXTY-THREE HE RENEWS THE RITES OF SORROW, AND IS ENTRANCED. — CHAPTER SIXTY-FOUR THE MYSTERY UNFOLDED--ANOTHER RECOGNITION, WHICH, IT IS TO BE HOPED, THE READER COULD NOT FORESEE. — CHAPTER SIXTY-FIVE A RETROSPECTIVE LINK, NECESSARY FOR THE CONCATENATION OF THESE MEMOIRS. — CHAPTER SIXTY-SIX THE HISTORY DRAWS NEAR A PERIOD. — CHAPTER SIXTY-SEVEN THE LONGEST AND THE LAST.

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