Great Books of the Western Wrold, Vol. 37 - The history of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding
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.
Catégories:
Volume:
37
Année:
1952
Edition:
1
Editeur::
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Langue:
english
ISBN 10:
0852291639
ISBN 13:
9780852291634
Collection:
Great Books of the Western World (37)
Fichier:
PDF, 89.50 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 1952