Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College,
University of Kent at Canterbury. Tom Jones is widely regarded as
one of the first and most influential English novels. It is
certainly the funniest. Tom Jones, the hero of the book, is
introduced to the reader as the ward of a liberal Somerset squire.
Tom is a generous but slightly wild and feckless country boy with a
weakness for young women. Misfortune, followed by many spirited
adventures as he travels to London to seek his fortune, teach him a
sort of wisdom to go with his essential good-heartedness. This
'comic, epic poem in prose' will make the modern reader laugh as
much as it did his forbears. Its biting satire finds an echo in
today's society, for as Doris Lessing recently remarked 'This
country becomes every day more like the eighteenth century, full of
thieves and adventurers, rogues and a robust, unhypocritical
savagery side-by-side with people lecturing others on morality'.
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