Tom Jones: Introduction by Claude Rawson (Everyman's Library Classics Series) - Hardcover

Fielding, Henry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679405690 ISBN 13: 9780679405696

Publisher: Everyman's Library USA, 1991

Synopsis

One of the first and most influential of English novels, Henry Fielding's Tom Jones--published in 1749--is blessed with a lively and endearing hero at the center of one of the most ingeniously constructed comic plots in fiction.

Tom Jones, a foundling brought up in the household of the benevolent Squire Allworthy, falls in love with the beautiful heiress Sophia Western, whose father forbids them to marry on grounds of Tom's low birth. Tom is a lusty, high-spirited yet good-hearted soul, and after he is banished by his guardian for youthful misbehavior he heads to London to make his own fortune, with the smitten Sophia in pursuit. A series of bawdy escapades and assorted scrapes ensues, including a duel and a stint in prison, before the mystery of Tom's birth is unraveled. Fielding used all the dramatic skill he had amassed as a successful playwright for the London stage to tell this hugely entertaining story of a flawed but generous hero claiming his true identity and his true love.
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Review:

"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

Book Description:

Henry Fielding's classic novel, read by John Sessions

About this edition

• Publisher: Everyman's Library USA
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0679405690
• ISBN 13: 9780679405696
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 427