The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known just as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by the English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. The novel is both a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel. First published on 28 February 1749 in London, Tom Jones is among the earliest English prose works describable as a novel, and is the earliest novel mentioned by W. Somerset Maugham in his 1948 book "Great Novelists and Their Novels" among the ten best novels of the world. Totaling 346,747 wor...

Our hero Tom, a friendly young rogue with a heart of gold, has fixed his heart on the delicious Sophia, daughter of a wealthy landowner. Losing hope, poor Tom finds solace in the beds of a host of beautiful women, at least one of them old enough to be his mother. He leaves a trail of broken hearts behind him, only to discover… but that would spoil the story − you must listen and see! This great English classic is brought to life by Bill Homewood’s lively reading.

The History Of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding.

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This book-collection file includes Fielding's five classic novels: Joseph Andrews, 1742; Jonathan Wild, 1743; Tom Jones, 1749; A Journey From This World to the Next, 1749; and Amelia, 1751. It also includes Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, The Life and Deat

'"Sir, I am concerned at the Trouble I give you; nay indeed my Nakedness may well make me ashamed to look you in the Face ..." Jones offered her his Coat; but, I know not for what Reason, she absolutely refused the most earnest Solicitations to accept it'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 neighbouring squire - ...

Tom Jones is rightly regarded as Fielding's greatest work, and one of the first and most influential of English novels. Attacked at the time as `A motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery', it overflows with a marvellous assortment of prudes, whores, libertines, bumpkins, misanthropes, hypocrites, scoundrels, virgins, and all too fallible humanitarians. This carefully modernized edition is based on Fielding's emended fourth edition text and offers the most thorough notes, ma...

Henry Fielding’s bawdy, colorful, high-spirited novel painted human vices and virtues with unprecedented honesty and good humor, making Tom Jones as fresh and entertaining today as it was when first published nearly three hundred years ago.A foundling of mysterious parentage, Tom Jones is brought up by the benevolent and wealthy Squire Allworthy as his own son.As a young man, Tom falls in love with the beautiful and unattainable Sophia Western, a n...

Tom Jones* is rightly regarded as Henry Fielding's greatest work, and one of the first and most influential of English novels. At the centre of one of the most ingenious plots in English fiction stands a hero whose actions were, in 1749, as shocking as they are funny today.Amorous, high-spirited, and filled with what Fielding called the glorious lust of doing good, (but with a tendency toward dissolution), Tom Jones is one of the first characters in English fiction whose h...

Tom Jones is a foundling discovered on the property of a very kind, wealthy landowner, Squire Allworthy, in Somerset in England's West Country. Tom grows into a vigorous and lusty, yet honest and kind-hearted, youth. He develops affection for his neighbour's daughter, Sophia Western. On one hand, their love reflects the romantic comedy genre that was popular in 18th-century Britain. However, Tom's status as a bastard causes Sophia's father and Allworthy to oppose their love; this criticism...

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by the English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. First published on February 28 1749, Tom Jones is among the earliest English prose works describable as a novel.[1] The novel is divided into 18 smaller books. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Henry Fielding's "Joseph Andrews" is a pioneering work in the realm of English literature, often regarded as one of the earliest novels. Published in 1742, this narrative employs a rich tapestry of humor, satire, and social commentary to examine contemporary values through the misadventures of its virtuous protagonist, Joseph Andrews. Fielding employs a unique blend of realism and parody, drawing inspiration from Cervantes' "Don Quixote" and the burgeoning genre of the novel, which seeks t...