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Tom Jones (Paperback)
Henry Fielding
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Abandoned as an infant and of unknown parentage, Tom Jones is
raised in the household of the irreproachable, altruistic Squire
Allworthy. Growing up to be a high-spirited, lusty youth, Tom finds
himself vulnerable to temptation in the form of the local wenches,
though his heart is ultimately claimed by the beautiful Sophia
Western, the daughter of a neighbouring landowner. When Tom's
erotic misadventures compel the squire to expel him from his home,
and when Sophia flees from her domineering and boisterous father to
avoid an undesired union with the odious Master Blifil, a
colourful, picaresque journey through eighteenth-century England
ensues, one punctuated by a parade of unforgettable Hogarthian
grotesques and timeless comic set-pieces. Characterized by both
razor-sharp wit and broad, bawdy humour, and described by Coleridge
as boasting one of the "three most perfect plots ever planned", Tom
Jones was an instant hit on its publication in 1749, and is widely
considered one of the greatest works of English literature and a
foundation stone in the development of the English novel.
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Tom Jones (Paperback)
Henry Fielding
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An accurate text of Shamela (Fielding s satire of Samuel Richardson
s Pamela, the most popular epistolary novel of the eighteenth
century) as well as An Essay on the Knowledge of the Characters of
Men, selections from The Champion, and the Preface to The
Adventures of David Simple are also included. All of the texts are
fully annotated. "Backgrounds" contains generous extracts from
works that Fielding satirized Pamela and Conyer Middleton s
Dedication to the Life of Cicero and emulated Gil Blas and
selections from Don Quixote, the Roman Comique, and Le Paysan
Parvenu. The section concludes with a general explanation of the
political and religious contexts in which Joseph Andrews was
written. "Criticism" offers a broad range of responses to the
novel. Contemporary assessments include selected letters of Thomas
Gray, William Shenstone, Samuel Richardson, and others as well as
commentary from The Student, or Oxford and Cambridge Monthly
Miscellany, by William Hazlitt, James Beattie, and Sarah Fielding
and Jane Collier. Modern assessments are by Mark Spilka, Dick
Taylor, Jr., Martin Battestin, Sheldon Sacks, Morris Golden, Brian
McCrea, and Homer Goldberg. A Selected Bibliography is also
included."
Published together for the first time, Eliza Haywood's Anti-Pamela
and Henry Fielding's An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela
Andrews are the two most important responses to Samuel Richardson's
novel Pamela. Anti-Pamela comments on Richardson's representations
of work, virtue, and gender, while also questioning the generic
expectations of the novel that Pamela establishes, and it provides
a vivid portrayal of the material realities of life for a woman in
eighteenth-century London. Fielding's Shamela punctures both the
figure Richardson established for himself as an author and Pamela's
preoccupation with virtue. This Broadview edition also includes a
rich selection of historical materials, including writings from the
period on sexuality, women's work, Pamela and the print trade, and
education and conduct.
The novel is fully annotated for undergraduate readers and is
accompanied by a Textual Appendix and a map depicting Tom s route
to London. As in the previous edition, "Contemporary Reactions" by
such noteworthy commentators as Samuel Richardson, Samuel Johnson,
and the Hill sisters provide rich historical context. "Criticism"
is a collection of fourteen interpretations of the novel spanning
the years 1826 1990 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Forsyth,
Kenneth Rexroth, R. S. Crane, John Preston, William Empson, Wayne
C. Booth, Martin Battestin, Maaja A. Stewart, Eleanor N. Hutchens,
Sean Shesgreen, Frederick W. Hilles, and Sheridan Baker. A new
Chronology and an updated Selected Bibliography are also included."
Two hundred years have not dimmed Fielding's realism. His humor is
closer to our own than that of any other writer before the present
century."-Kingsley Amis "An exquisite picture of human
manners."-Edward Gibbon "The plotting is complex, astonishing and
perfect. It brims with good nature and generosity of spirit....it's
full of jokes, suspense, cliffhangers, narrative reversals and
pathos."-Jonathan Cole The History of Tom Jones is Henry Fielding's
greatest work and one of literature's earliest examples of a fully
realized protagonist, with both virtues and vices on abundant
display. The picaresque story of the orphan Tom, his exile, then
subsequent adventures and loves is bristling with the spirit of
mid-18th century Britain yet remains a deeply ambitious novel.The
frank portrayal of human nature and innovative narrative structure
of this classic continues to entice readers hundreds of years after
it's publication. When Mr. Allworthy, a kind country squire,
returns from London he finds a baby boy in one of the beds of his
estate. Through his inquiry, he determines that the mother is a
local woman named Jenny Jones. Allworthy sends her away from the
country, and decides to raise the boy, named Tom Jones, with his
unmarried sister in their home. Soon after, Allworthy's sister
marries and gives birth to her own boy, known as Blifil. He
initially appears to be virtuous, yet as he grows it becomes
apparent he inherently deceitful. Years later, when Squire
Allworthy falls ill Blifil betrays Tom, and he is banished from the
house. In his exile, Tom's adventures across his country begin.
With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset
manuscript, this edition of The History of Tom Jones is both modern
and readable.
Two hundred years have not dimmed Fielding's realism. His humor is
closer to our own than that of any other writer before the present
century."-Kingsley Amis "An exquisite picture of human
manners."-Edward Gibbon "The plotting is complex, astonishing and
perfect. It brims with good nature and generosity of spirit....it's
full of jokes, suspense, cliffhangers, narrative reversals and
pathos."-Jonathan Cole The History of Tom Jones is Henry Fielding's
greatest work and one of literature's earliest examples of a fully
realized protagonist, with both virtues and vices on abundant
display. The picaresque story of the orphan Tom, his exile, then
subsequent adventures and loves is bristling with the spirit of
mid-18th century Britain yet remains a deeply ambitious novel.The
frank portrayal of human nature and innovative narrative structure
of this classic continues to entice readers hundreds of years after
it's publication. When Mr. Allworthy, a kind country squire,
returns from London he finds a baby boy in one of the beds of his
estate. Through his inquiry, he determines that the mother is a
local woman named Jenny Jones. Allworthy sends her away from the
country, and decides to raise the boy, named Tom Jones, with his
unmarried sister in their home. Soon after, Allworthy's sister
marries and gives birth to her own boy, known as Blifil. He
initially appears to be virtuous, yet as he grows it becomes
apparent he inherently deceitful. Years later, when Squire
Allworthy falls ill Blifil betrays Tom, and he is banished from the
house. In his exile, Tom's adventures across his country begin.
With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset
manuscript, this edition of The History of Tom Jones is both modern
and readable.
"The first taste I had for books came to me from my pleasure in the
fables of the Metamorphoses of Ovid. For at about seven or eight
years of age I would steal away from any other pleasure to read
them, inasmuch as this language was my mother tongue, and it was
the easiest book I knew and the best suited by its content to my
tender age." -Michel de Montaigne The Lover's Assistant; or, New
Art of Love (1760) is an updated translation of Ovid's Ars
Amatoria; or, The Art of Love (2 AD) by English satirist Henry
Fielding. Divided into three books, Ars Amatoria; or, The Art of
Love was immensely popular-if a little controversial-in its time,
and has survived numerous charges of indecency over the centuries.
For the modern reader, it should prove a surprisingly relatable
work on intimacy from an author of the ancient world. Fielding's
translation, of the first book alone, remains true to Ovid's Latin
while updating its examples and historical context for the
contemporary English reader. At times serious, at others humorous,
The Lover's Assistant; or, New Art of Love uses a mix of
down-to-earth examples and relatable references to mythology in
order to offer salient advice for the reader longing for love.
Maintaining much of Ovid's content, Fielding replaces the context
of the poem-ancient Rome-with that of his contemporary England.
Topics include etiquette, remembering birthdays, avoiding unhealthy
jealousy, being open to older and younger lovers, and nurturing
honesty. With his wry wit and clear-eyed sense of English
aristocratic life, Fielding-who is seen as a pioneer of English
literature for his work, including the comic novel Tom Jones
(1749)-provides a loyal reinterpretation of Ovid's classic study of
romance between men and women. The Lover's Assistant; or, New Art
of Love, although frequently tongue-in-cheek, is an earnest and
effective attempt to enlighten and encourage its readers to
partake-responsibly-in one of life's greatest pleasures. With a
beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript,
this edition of Ovid's The Lover's Assistant; or, New Art of Love
is a classic work of Roman literature reimagined for modern
readers.
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Tom Jones (Paperback)
Henry Fielding; Edited by John Bender, Simon Stern
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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. 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 public sphere. ABOUT THE
SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made
available the widest range of literature from around the globe.
Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship,
providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable
features, including expert introductions by leading authorities,
helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for
further study, and much more.
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Tom Jones (Paperback, Reissue)
Henry Fielding; Introduction by Doreen Roberts; Notes by Doreen Roberts; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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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'.
The Modern Husband * The Clandestine Marriage * She Stoops to
Conquer * Wild Oats This edition brings together four
eighteenth-century comedies that illustrate the full variety of the
century's drama. Fielding's The Modern Husband , written before the
1737 Licensing Act that restricted political and social comment,
depicts wife-pandering and widespread social corruption. In Garrick
and Colman's The Clandestine Marriage two lovers marry in defiance
of parental wishes and rue the consequences. She Stoops to Conquer
explores the comic and not-so-comic consequences of mistaken
identity, and in Wild Oats, the 'strolling player' Rover is a
beacon of hope at a time of unrest. Part of the Oxford English
Drama series, this edition has modern-spelling texts, critical
introduction, wide-ranging annotation and an informative
bibliography. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's
Classics has made available the widest range of literature from
around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's
commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a
wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions
by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text,
up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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