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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. It is a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel. It was first published on 28 February 1749 in London and is among the earliest English works to be classified as a novel. [1]
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. A ribald and rowdy romp through the mansions and taverns of Georgian England. Henry Fielding's fallen hero bed-hops his way out of a good home and almost into a hangman's noose, via a series of misadventures and misunderstandings.
Sep 27, 2005 · A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighboring squire—though he sometimes succumbs to the charms of the local girls.
- Henry Fielding
Sep 1, 2004 · About this eBook. Author. Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754. Title. History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. Credits. Text file produced by Carlo Traverso, Charles Franks, and the Online. Distributed Proofreading Team. This file has been cross-checked with.
Tom Jones begins with Squire Allworthy’s discovery of an abandoned baby who has been slipped into his bed. His natural generosity and humanity lead Squire Allworthy to care for the child and raise him as a son, but actually foundling infants often met a far different fate.
Mar 22, 2014 · His novel, “The History of Tom Jones” was published in 1749. Highly organized, was thought by Coleridge to have one of the three great plots of all literature. The book is regarded as Fielding´s greatest, and as one of the first and most influential of English novels.
- Henry Fielding
A vivid Hogarthian panorama of eighteenth-century life, spiced with danger and intrigue, bawdy exuberance and good-natured authorial interjections, Tom Jones is one of the greatest and most ambitious comic novels in English literature.
