Tom Jones
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- Paperback
1024 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2002
Summary
Tom, a foundling, is discovered one evening by the benevolent Squire Allworthy and his sister Bridget and brought up as a son in their household; when his sexual escapades and general misbehavior lead them to banish him, he sets out in search of both his fortune and his true identity. 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 human vir…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780812966077 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0812966074 |
| Author: | Henry Fielding, Fredson Bowers, Martin C. Battestin |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 1024 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2002 |
| Weight: | 714g |
| Dimensions: | 201mm x 133mm x 45mm |
| Series: | Modern Library Classics |
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“Two hundred years have not dimmed Fielding’s realism. His humor is closer to our own than that of any writer before the present century.”-Kingsley Amis From the Trade Paperback edition.
“Two hundred years have not dimmed Fielding’s realism. His humor is closer to our own than that of any writer before the present century.”—Kingsley Amis
About The Author
Henry Fielding
Fredson Bowers was a professor of literature at the University of Virginia for more than forty years and a preeminent textual critic.
Martin C. Battestin is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English at the University of Virginia and a leading scholar on Henry Fielding. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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