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[Tom Jones] The history of Tom Jones

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. When Tom is banished to make his own fortune and Sophia follows him to London to escape an arranged marriage, the adventure begins. 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.

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  • "Maugham presents Fielding's Tom Jones"@en
  • "W. Somerset Maugham presents Henry Fielding's Tom Jones"@en
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  • "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. When Tom is banished to make his own fortune and Sophia follows him to London to escape an arranged marriage, the adventure begins. 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."@en
  • "Tom Jones, a friendly orphan, finds help and hindrance from the characters he meets in his adventurous and lusty life."
  • "Tom Jones is a foundling of mysterious origin, discovered one night in the bed of the wealthy and benevolent Mr Allworthy. Tom's intrigues, amours and picaresque adventures, and how he pursues the lovely Sophia Western are the ingredients of an elaborate plot."@en
  • "Henry Fielding's Tom Jones is both one of the great comic masterpieces of English literature and a major force in the development of the novel form. By 1749, the year Tom Jones appeared, the novel was only beginning to be recognized as a potentially literary form. Samuel Richardson's novel Clarissa had appeared only the year before, and for the most part in intellectual circles prose fiction was not considered a worthy pursuit. Despite the publication by Jonathan Swift, a member of the literary elite surrounding Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, of Gulliver's Travels in 1726, the sanctioned genres of the first half of the eighteenth century were verse and drama. The novels of Daniel Defoe, seen by many as purely adventure tales, were not regarded as worthy of serious consideration. They were, however, instrumental in the development of a suitable reading public, without which Fielding probably would not have attempted any form of sustained prose fiction."@en

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  • "Romans (teksten)"
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  • "Humor"
  • "Humorous fiction"
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  • "Powieść angielska"
  • "Picaresque literature"@en

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  • "[The history of Tom Jones] : [a foundling]. [Vol. 3]"
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  • "The history of Tom Jones. Engravings by Derrick Harris"@en

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