Tom Jonesby Henry Fielding | |
| List(s): | "Carp 500" "Racine Library List" |
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| Category: |
"Fiction - Adventure" |
| Pages: | 859 |
| Year of Publication: | 1749 |
| Date Read: | 04/18/1991 |
| Notes: | Young Tom Jones, pure-hearted and warm-blooded, parentage unknown and future uncertain, gets entangled with a variety of men and women who vividly cover the full spectrum of human virtue and vice. Before he recognizes his destiny, he must suffer all the outrages of comic misfortune. COMMENTS — The novel is divided into 18 “books.” Each book is introduced by a chapter on how to write a novel. The titles for these introductory chapters are hilarious. Fielding also wrote Shamela, a parody of Samuel Richardson’s Pamela, and Joseph Andrews, about Pamela’s brother. |
| My Rating: | 7 |