9780192553218 - Ferdinand, Count Fathom Oxford English Novels by Smollett, Tobias (12 results)

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:0192553216.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:0192553216.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Oxford English Novels] 205 x 125 mm. xxvi, 384 pp. [ISBN: 978-0192553218] Clothbound. Small previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down. A very good bright copy in like price-clipped dustwrapper.

hardbound. Smollett's third novel, here edited and with an introduction and notes by Damian Grant; includes select bibliography, and Smollett chronology; a volume in the Oxford English Novels (general editor James Kinsley); very minor foxing to endpapers and text block, o.w. Very Good throughout; boards lightly sunned at edges; dustwrapper with light wear along spine, o.w. Very Good. Dustwrapper. 384pp. 8vo. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: xxvi, 384 p. ; 21 cm. Subjects: 1700-1799; Rogues and vagabonds England London ; Fiction; Vagabonds Angleterre Londres ; Romans, nouvelles, etc.; Manners and customs; Rogues and vagabonds; English fiction; Fiction in English; English fiction 18th century England; England Social life and customs 18th century ; Fiction. 3 Kg.

8vo, 384pp. A very good hardback copy bound in red cloth, in like dust jacket. Oxford English Novels Series.

8vo. pp xxvi, 384. Original publisher's red cloth with lettered gilt at the spine. ISBN: 0192553216 Very light foxing to edge of page block. Otherwise Very good plus in Very good plus dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Ex-library. Library stamps, labels and markings. Dust-jacket in clear plastic cover, taped to boards and endpapers. ; xxvi, 384, [1], [5 (blank)] pages. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 202 x 124mm. With an 11 page Introduction by Damian Grant. "This is the first separate edition of 'Ferdinand Count Fathom' to appear for over sixty years, and it has been prepared with a critical introduction by Damian Grant, Lecturer in English at the University of Manchester." - from dust-jacket blurb.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Thus. DW: pc. Previous owner's inscription ffep. Edited with an introduction: Damian Grant. 21 x 13.5cm. 384pp.

Condition: Very Good. USED. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. No Dustjacket. Markings on the inside.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Ex-library with usual stamps and markings This is a damaged book. May be ex-library, water-damaged, or spine creased/broken. Acceptable, Reading copy only, with writing/markings and heavy wear. Standard-sized.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York. 1971. Oxford University Press. 1st of This Oxford English Novels Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0192553216. Edited and with an introduction by Damian Grant. 385 pages. hardcover. keywords: Europe England Literature 18th Century World Literature. DESCRIPTION - Unlike the other four major novelists of the eighteenth century, Smollett started writing fiction as a young man; and he was still only thirty-two when he brought out his third novel Ferdinand Count Fathom in 1753. Although Fathom contains much of the headlong narrative, comic dialogue, and poetic caricature that distinguish Roderick Random and Peregrine Pickle, Smollett tried to do more in this book than simply repeat a successful pattern. The 'hero' of the novel is to begin with a confessed villain, and Smollett explores the possibilities of this situation in a manner very different from Fielding's in Jonathan Wild. Also, Smollett attains a new degree of psychological fidelity - for example, in his study of the decaying relationship between the otherwise theatrical Renaldo and 'Monimia'. But most significant is the presence of a new style, a new romantic inflexion for some scenes of tenderness and horror which led Hazlitt to claim for Fathom that 'there is more power of writing occasionally shown in it than in any of his works'. The novel certainly merits consideration not only by readers of Smollett, but by anyone interested in the history of taste in the eighteenth century and the development of the novel form. This is the first separate edition of Ferdinand Count Fathom to appear for over sixty years, and it has been prepared with a critical introduction by Damian Grant, Lecturer in English at the University of Manchester. The texts of the Oxford English Novels are based on the earliest authoritative edition, incorporating later revisions and corrections made by the authors. Each volume is edited by an authority in the field, and contains a short critical introduction, a note on the text used, a chronological table, a select bibliography, and short explanatory notes. The general editor of the series is James Kinsley, Professor of English Studies in the University of Nottingham. inventory #42792.