The history of Tom Jones
Squire Allworthy suspects that the infant whom he adopts and names Tom Jones is the illegitimate child of his servant Jenny Jones. When Tom is a young man, he falls in love with Sophia Western, his beautiful and virtuous neighbor. In the end his true identity revealed and he wins Sophia's hand, but numerous obstacles have to be overcome, and in the course of the action the various sets of characters pursue each other from one part of the country to another, giving Fielding an opportunity to pai…
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- Full title :The history of Tom Jones / Henry Fielding ; edited by R.P.C. Mutter.
Summary
Squire Allworthy suspects that the infant whom he adopts and names Tom Jones is the illegitimate child of his servant Jenny Jones. When Tom is a young man, he falls in love with Sophia Western, his beautiful and virtuous neighbor. In the end his true identity revealed and he wins Sophia's hand, but numerous obstacles have to be overcome, and in the course of the action the various sets of characters pursue each other from one part of the country to another, giving Fielding an opportunity to paint an incomparably vivid picture of England in the mid-18th century.
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- Publication Date:1985.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Penguin
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1985.
Notes
Previously published in: Penguin English Library, 1966.
Cover title: Tom Jones.
The Physical Object
- Description:911 pages : : facsimile ; : 20 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0140430091, 9780140430097
- oclc:ocn605583875
- LC Classification:PR3454
- Dewey Decimal:823.5
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