The complete online text of The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Volume 02 by Tobias Smollett.

Of the major 18th-century novelists and satirists, the British author and physician Tobias George Smollett (1721-1771) is most clearly identified with the picaresque tradition of novel writing. The variety and extent of Tobias Smollett's interests, his p...

Tobias Smollett has always been recognized as one of the truly great English novelists of the eighteenth century, the period during which the novel as it is known today emerged and was established as a significant new form of literary expression. But Smo...

Tobias Smollett has always been recognized as one of the truly great English novelists of the eighteenth century, the period during which the novel as it is known today emerged and established itself as a significant new form of literary expression. But...

Jason and Odysseus, call your agents. Publishers have rediscovered the mythic voyage. Sated in recent years with whiny victimization books and novels of academic navel gazing, publishers are setting sail for heroic tales of man -- and woman -- against the sea, even...

AROUND the time Rio Ferdinand was dotting the is and counting the noughts on his recordbreaking transfer to Manchester United last Friday, Anton Ferdinand was considering some important business of his own several hundred miles south and a footballing world away from his elder...