Henry Fielding

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Ohio

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 toofallible 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 Jonesloses 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.This carefully modernized edition is based on Fielding's emended fourth edition text and offers the most thorough notes, maps, and bibliography. The introduction uses the latest scholarship to examine how Tom Jones exemplifies the role of the novel in the emerging eighteenth-century publicsphere.

Tom Jones

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Hodder & Stoughton, London, Publisher; 1936; Contains four complete novels: The Scarlet Pimpernel, I Will Repay, Eldorado, Sir Percy Hits Back, all written by Baroness Orczy; 1,279 pages; no writing; pages mostly all clean with minor discoloration; cloth-like cover spine torn, stained on front/back, wear/stain to edges; discoloration on inside covers; last page separating from binding; bookstore sticker affixed to back inside cover.  

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