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Signet Classics 451-CY503-125Widely considered to be one of the first English novels, Fielding's "Tom Jones," written in 1749, revolves around the life and experiences of an orphaned baby who grows up to be a kind-hearted, if overly vigorous, young man. Tom is brought up by the generous Mr. Allworthy on his Somerset estate, where Tom eventually falls in love with his beautiful neighbor, Sophia Western. Because of his partially unknown parentage, however, their respective guardians are against the match. When Tom is banished due to his occasionally heated temper and sexual encounters with local girls, he has an adventure full of danger and surprise. Ultimately he follows Sophia to London, who herself is fleeing from an undesirable arranged marriage. Generally acknowledged as Fielding's greatest work, "Tom Jones" takes the hero through an inventive plot that will entertain and astonish readers through to its revealing conclusion.
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- Title Tom Jones
- Author Henry Fielding
- Binding Paperback
- Language EN
- Publisher Signet Classics
- Date August 1, 1963
- ISBN 9780451514516
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Fielding, Henry
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New York. 1963. Signet/New American Library. Reprinted Signet Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0451514513. Afterword by Frank Kermode. 864 pages. paperback. CE1451. Cover: Milton Glaser. keywords: Signet Classic Paperback. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Young Tom Jones, pure - hearted and warm - blooded, parentage unknown and future uncertain, stands at the center of this masterpiece of the English language. Yet he is but one of the book's expertly drawn characters his adventures on the highway of life entangle him with a variety of men and women who vividly cover the full spectrum of human virtue and vice. His high - minded love for sweet Sophia cannot restrain the demands of his flesh for the pretty and bawdy Molly or the seductive Mrs. Waters; nor can the benevolence of Squire Allworthy protect him from the wretched Bilfil. Before he recognizes his destiny, he must suffer all the outrages of comic misfortune. The richly textured pattern of Tom Jones is one of the marvels of literature…
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