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‘ Tom Jones' by Henry Fielding
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by the English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. The novel is both a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel. The kindly and wealthy Squire Allworthy and his sister Bridget are introduced in their wealthy estate in Somerset. Allworthy returns from London after an extended business trip and finds an abandoned baby sleeping in his bed. He summons his housekeeper, Mrs Deborah Wilkins, to take care of the child. After searching the nearby village, Mrs Wilkins is told about a young woman called Jenny Jones, servant of a schoolmaster and his wife, as the most likely person to have committed the deed.
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Tom Jones By Henry Fielding Illustrated + FREE Dubliners edition by Henry Fielding Tom Jones Literature Fiction eBooks
Henry Fielding wrote Tom Jones 267 years ago. I just re-read it a second time and there is no doubt, this is a masterpiece. The plot is complex, even convoluted, and peopled by too many personages to describe it accurately in a review. At its simplest form it is a soap opera. Tom, a foundling planted in a rich, honest, and righteous squire's bed is raised as the squire's practically adopted son. Tom is both sentimental and generous to a fault, but at the same time impulsive and irresistible to the female half of England. He can never resist them himself. That, coupled with bitter jealousy of his rival, the squire's sister's son Billfill and Tom's infatuation with a neighbor's enchanting daughter Sofie, leads him to downfall. Banished from his adoptive benefactor's estate he sets off to find his fortune, while Sophie is trying not to be railroaded to marry the hateful Billfill. The book describes the adventures (or mostly misadventures) of Tom and Sophie, where the wheel of fortune mostly keeps both of them almost completely submerged. Despite his bad luck, Tom is tempted, drawn, or even thrown into bed with various ladies and less than ladies, which contributes to his bad luck and to Sophie's opinion about his professed love. Beyond being a helter-skelter roller-coaster ride of sitcoms and dramas, the secondary but worthy value of the book is its biting criticism on lives and morals of the well-to-do English gentry and nobility, and of their servants as well. Under the transparent guise of humor, Fielding blasts away at parents who force their children to marry for money and station, clergymen that preach hate rather than love, at lawyers who beggar the poor and hate justice, at teachers that terrorize their pupils, at physicians who pretend to know diseases and cures, inn-keepers who fleece their patrons, soldiers that behave like thugs, etc., etc. He has a particularly unfavorable view of theater and literature critics (who must have got under his skin too). Although the book ends rather lamely conforming to pre-Victorian platitudes, if one disregards the quarter-of-a-millenium old style and language- it is immensely enjoyable.Product details
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Tom Jones By Henry Fielding Illustrated + FREE Dubliners edition by Henry Fielding Tom Jones Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
I recommend this book to everyone because it discloses the unique writhing style of the time.
A classic book made into a classic film in the sixties starring Albert Finney. Funny and brilliant. One of the few books I had to read for a college course that I really enjoyed.
An almost 250 year-old laugh-outloud, gently picaresque novel with a more ribald tone than later Victorian examples. The author's frequent asides (sometimes whole chapters in length) are both fun and interesting, as are the spelling, grammar, and meaning of some words. It's never hard to understand but occasionally makes you pay close attention such as when discover means today's definition of disclose.
Henry Fielding wrote Tom Jones 267 years ago. I just re-read it a second time and there is no doubt, this is a masterpiece. The plot is complex, even convoluted, and peopled by too many personages to describe it accurately in a review. At its simplest form it is a soap opera. Tom, a foundling planted in a rich, honest, and righteous squire's bed is raised as the squire's practically adopted son. Tom is both sentimental and generous to a fault, but at the same time impulsive and irresistible to the female half of England. He can never resist them himself. That, coupled with bitter jealousy of his rival, the squire's sister's son Billfill and Tom's infatuation with a neighbor's enchanting daughter Sofie, leads him to downfall. Banished from his adoptive benefactor's estate he sets off to find his fortune, while Sophie is trying not to be railroaded to marry the hateful Billfill. The book describes the adventures (or mostly misadventures) of Tom and Sophie, where the wheel of fortune mostly keeps both of them almost completely submerged. Despite his bad luck, Tom is tempted, drawn, or even thrown into bed with various ladies and less than ladies, which contributes to his bad luck and to Sophie's opinion about his professed love. Beyond being a helter-skelter roller-coaster ride of sitcoms and dramas, the secondary but worthy value of the book is its biting criticism on lives and morals of the well-to-do English gentry and nobility, and of their servants as well. Under the transparent guise of humor, Fielding blasts away at parents who force their children to marry for money and station, clergymen that preach hate rather than love, at lawyers who beggar the poor and hate justice, at teachers that terrorize their pupils, at physicians who pretend to know diseases and cures, inn-keepers who fleece their patrons, soldiers that behave like thugs, etc., etc. He has a particularly unfavorable view of theater and literature critics (who must have got under his skin too). Although the book ends rather lamely conforming to pre-Victorian platitudes, if one disregards the quarter-of-a-millenium old style and language- it is immensely enjoyable.
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