The History of Tom Jones (Penguin Classics)
by Henry Fielding, R. P. C. Mutter | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0140430091 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0140430091 Global Overview for this book
2 journalers for this copy...
Purchased used copy on Half.com for my nephew in Germany.
From the Publisher:
One of the great comic novels in the English language, Tom Jones was an instant success when it was published in 1749: Ten thousand copies were sold in its first year. A foundling, Tom is discovered one evening by the benevolent Squire Allworthy and his sister Bridget and brought up as a son in their household until it is time for him to set 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 fiction to display legitimate sides of human virtue and vice.
From the Publisher:
One of the great comic novels in the English language, Tom Jones was an instant success when it was published in 1749: Ten thousand copies were sold in its first year. A foundling, Tom is discovered one evening by the benevolent Squire Allworthy and his sister Bridget and brought up as a son in their household until it is time for him to set 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 fiction to display legitimate sides of human virtue and vice.
Journal Entry 2 by edibnihon from Weilerswist, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany on Thursday, March 15, 2007
Received book from my aunt for the uni, however I have not gotten to reading it yet.
