The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom, credited to Tobias Smollett, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom by Tobias Smollett. Read in English by Arthur Krolman 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

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
• Author credits: Tobias Smollett
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 68
• Listed recording duration: 16:33:19

Opening tracks: first 24 of 68

1. 00 - Preface — 9:23
2. 01 - Chapter 1 — 10:15
3. 02 - Chapter 2 — 6:32
4. 03 - Chapter 3 — 7:25
5. 04 - Chapter 4 — 11:29
6. 05 - Chapter 5 — 13:50
7. 06 - Chapter 6 — 9:40
8. 07 - Chapter 7 — 11:15
9. 08 - Chapter 8 — 11:33
10. 09 - Chapter 9 — 8:21
11. 10 - Chapter 10 — 9:02
12. 11 - Chapter 11 — 7:26
13. 12 - Chapter 12 — 12:05
14. 13 - Chapter 13 — 10:39
15. 14 - Chapter 14 — 7:55
16. 15 - Chapter 15 — 13:35
17. 16 - Chapter 16 — 13:34
18. 17 - Chapter 17 — 16:20
19. 18 - Chapter 18 — 9:22
20. 19 - Chapter 19 — 11:00
21. 20 - Chapter 20 — 12:12
22. 21 - Chapter 21 — 9:55
23. 22 - Chapter 22 — 9:30
24. 23 - Chapter 23 — 19:15

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