The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom by Tobias SMOLLETT Part 1/3 | Full Audio Book

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom by Tobias SMOLLETT (1721 - 1771)
Genre(s): Published before 1800

Read by: Arthur Krolman in English

Parts:

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 00 - Preface
00:09:22 - 01 - Chapter 1
00:19:37 - 02 - Chapter 2
00:26:09 - 03 - Chapter 3
00:33:35 - 04 - Chapter 4
00:45:04 - 05 - Chapter 5
00:58:53 - 06 - Chapter 6
01:08:34 - 07 - Chapter 7
01:19:48 - 08 - Chapter 8
01:31:22 - 09 - Chapter 9
01:39:43 - 10 - Chapter 10
01:48:44 - 11 - Chapter 11
01:56:10 - 12 - Chapter 12
02:08:15 - 13 - Chapter 13
02:18:54 - 14 - Chapter 14
02:26:49 - 15 - Chapter 15
02:40:24 - 16 - Chapter 16
02:53:58 - 17 - Chapter 17
03:10:18 - 18 - Chapter 18
03:19:40 - 19 - Chapter 19
03:30:40 - 20 - Chapter 20
03:42:52 - 21 - Chapter 21
03:52:47 - 22 - Chapter 22
04:02:17 - 23 - Chapter 23
04:21:32 - 24 - Chapter 24
04:39:08 - 25 - Chapter 25
04:48:38 - 26 - Chapter 26
05:37:04 - 27 - Chapter 27
05:46:20 - 28 - Chapter 28
05:54:16 - 29 - Chapter 29
06:09:59 - 30 - Chapter 30
06:19:48 - 31 - Chapter 31
06:32:03 - 32 - Chapter 32
06:44:20 - 33 - Chapter 33
06:57:50 - 34 - Chapter 34

You can call me Dr. Fathom. Or Count Fathom. But I'm not who I say I am. And can you blame me? My mother was a soldiers' harlot who pocketed extra loot by wandering through the battlefield stripping the dead and dying of valuables. I don't even know who my father was, except he must have had my handsome looks. People liked looking at me. And people liked how I talked too. Early on, I learned that telling the truth didn't get you the same quick reward as telling them what they wanted to hear, being assiduously charming, dissimulating. In a word, lying. I became good at it. And I became the favorite of a rich Hungarian count who took me in and coaxed his pathetically naïve son to look up to me and learn to be like me. Ha! How I wanted to sell my soul to trade places with Renaldo! I wanted his money. I wanted his beautiful life. I wanted his beautiful wife -- at least for an extra notch on my belt. This is the story of how I went about achieving those things. It was easy, especially at first. Because, to tell the truth, people secretly yearn for tall tales. - Summary by Arthur Krolman