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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Penguin Classics) by Henry Fielding

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Author
Henry Fielding
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Pages
1024 pages
ISBN
978-0140436228
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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Penguin Classics) | Author: Henry Fielding, Language: English | Publisher: Penguin Classics | Dimensions: 5.04 x 0.91 x 7.76 inches | ISBN-10: 140436227 | ISBN-13: 978-0140436228 | Publication Date: September 27, 2005 | Print Length: 1024 pages

Inspiration for the PBS Masterpiece series Tom Jones starring Hannah Waddingham, this novel follows Tom Jones, a foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate. Deeply in love with Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighboring squire—though he sometimes succumbs to the charms of local girls—their romance takes a turn when Tom is banished to make his own fortune and Sophia follows him to London to escape an arranged marriage. A vivid Hogarthian panorama of eighteenth-century life, this adventure is spiced with danger and intrigue, bawdy exuberance, and good-natured authorial interjections, making it one of the greatest and most ambitious comic novels in English literature.

This edition includes a chronology, suggestions for further reading, notes, glossary, and an appendix of Fielding’s revisions. An introduction discusses narrative techniques and themes, the context of eighteenth-century fiction and satire, and the historical and political background of the Jacobite revolution. For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, with nearly 2,000 titles representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as quality translations by award-winning translators.

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