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The history of Tom Jones, a foundling

Tom Jones (1749) is rightly regarded as Fielding's greatest work, and one of the first and most influential of English novels. At the center 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. This carefully modernized edition is based on Fielding's emended fourth edition text and offers the most thorough Notes, Maps, and Bibliography.

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  • "Tang mu.qiong si"@en
  • "History of Tom Jones : a foundling"@en
  • "湯姆.瓊斯"
  • "History of Tom Jones"@en
  • "History of Tom Jones"
  • "Histoire de Tom Jones, enfant trouvé"
  • "Tom Jones"
  • "Tom Jones"@en
  • "History of Tom Jones, a foundling"@it
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  • "History of Tom Jones, a foundling"
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  • ""When Mr. Allworthy finds a baby boy in his bed, he decides to keep him and gives him the name Tom Jones. But Tom can't keep out of trouble, and he is sent away. Follow Tom's travels and read of his adventures long [sic] the roads of eighteenth-century England"--P. [4] of cover."
  • "Tom Jones (1749) is rightly regarded as Fielding's greatest work, and one of the first and most influential of English novels. At the center 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. This carefully modernized edition is based on Fielding's emended fourth edition text and offers the most thorough Notes, Maps, and Bibliography."@en
  • "Chronicles the romantic adventures of a reckless yet personable young man."@en
  • "A great comic novel, a good story well told, with something of a fairy-tale element in its theme: the youth of mysterious and presumably humble birth, in love with a beautiful but seemingly unattainable girl of higher social rank, who finally triumphs over his enemies to discover his parentage, win the girl and assume his proper place in society."
  • "For Coleridge the plot of Tom Jones was, along with that of Oedipus The King, the most perfect ever constructed. Fielding used all his art and all the craft he had amassed as a successful playwright for the eighteenth-century London stage to tell this hugely entertaining story of a foundling and how he arrives, through sexual misadventures and elaborate disasters, to claim his legitimacy, his fortune, and his true love. Describes the foundling, Tom, who grows to be athletic, charismatic, generous, and filled with "the glorious lust of doing good" but with a tendency toward dissolution. He leaves home to seek his fortune and his real identity."
  • "This novel takes its wide-eyed hero from innocence to experience through inns and bedrooms from Somerset to London and back, while at the same time continuing a farcical debate about the true nature of the novelist's art."
  • "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, maps, and bibliography. The introduction uses the latest scholarship to examine how Tom Jones exemplifies th."@en
  • "Byron chiam" Fielding "l'Omero in prosa dell'umana natura", Walter Scott lo disse "padre del romanzo inglese", e Coleridge esclamo': "Che maestro di composizione fu Fielding! per me, le trame più perfette mai immaginate sono l'Edipo Re, L 'Alchimista e Tom Jones." Il romanzo apparve nel 1749 ed ebbe un immediato successo, anche se non pochi furono quelli che si scandalizzarono di un preteso "immoralismo" dell'eroe e del suo creatore. Ma vero è che in pochi romanzi - settecenteschi e non - è dato trovare tanto robusto e ottimistico realismo, tanta forza di humour, tanta felicità di rappresentazione di una società ricca di affascinanti contraddizioni: gentiluomini di campagna violenti e grossolani e dame londinesi schizzinose nei salotti e corrive nell'alcova; ingiustizie sociali e mancanza di scrupoli e un allegro prender la vita come viene, leggi dure e spietate e rilassatezza morale, tutto si compone in un quadro mosso e colorito, vivace e disinvolto che richiama costantemente il mondo di quel Hogarth così caro all'autore."
  • "Describes the foundling, Tom, who grows to be athletic, charismatic, generous, and filled with "the glorious lust of doing good" but with a tendency toward dissolution. He leaves home to seek his fortune and his real identity."@en
  • ""Chronicles the romantic adventures of mysterious orphan Tom Jones, a reckless yet personable young man, as he falls in love with the unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of a neighboring squire"--NoveList."@en
  • "When Mr. Allworthy finds a baby boy in his bed, he decides to keep him and gives him the name Tom Jones. But Tom can't keep out of trouble, and is sent away. Follow Tom's travels and read of his adventures along the roads of eighteenth-century England."
  • "When Mr. Allworthy finds a baby boy in his bed, he decides to keep him and gives him the name Tom Jones. But Tom can't keep out of trouble, and is sent away. Follow Tom's travels and read of his adventures along the roads of eighteenth-century England."@en
  • "Follows the fortunes of Tom, a foundling brought up by the kindly squire Allworthy. Despite a good and generous heart, Tom's naive inability to resist a pretty face leads to his downfall and he is banished from the Squire's house. But when the girl he really loves, Sophia, runs away to escape from her arranged marriage to his rival, the despicable Blifil, Tom pursues her to London, embarking on a series of riotous and frequently amorous adventures involving a wonderfully rich gallery of characters. Not so much a rake's progress as the exploits of an innocent abroad, it is a splendidly funny and often touching odyssey in which good ultimately triumphs over the corruption of human spirit."
  • "Fielding's comic masterpiece of 1749 was immediately attacked as 'A motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery'. Indeed, his populous novel overflows with a marvellous assortment of prudes, whores, libertines, bumpkins, misanthropes, hypocrites, scoundrels, virgins, and all too fallible humanitarians. 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. Expelled from Mr. Allworthy's country estate for his wild temper and sexual conquests, the good-hearted foundling Tom Jones loses his money, joins the army, and pursues his beloved across Britain to London, where he becomes a kept lover and confronts the possibility of incest. Tom Jones is rightly regarded as Fielding's greatest work, and one of the first and most influential of English novels."
  • "Fielding's comic masterpiece of 1749 was immediately attacked as 'A motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery'. Indeed, his populous novel overflows with a marvellous assortment of prudes, whores, libertines, bumpkins, misanthropes, hypocrites, scoundrels, virgins, and all too fallible humanitarians. 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. Expelled from Mr. Allworthy's country estate for his wild temper and sexual conquests, the good-hearted foundling Tom Jones loses his money, joins the army, and pursues his beloved across Britain to London, where he becomes a kept lover and confronts the possibility of incest. Tom Jones is rightly regarded as Fielding's greatest work, and one of the first and most influential of English novels."@en

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  • "Anglické romány"
  • "Picaresque literature"
  • "Fiction"
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  • "Erzählende Literatur: Hauptwerk vor 1945"
  • "English fiction"
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  • "Prirejene izdaje"
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  • "Humorous stories"
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