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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( Vol. I)

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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( Vol. I)

by Henry Fielding

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New York: The Century Co., 1907. Good copy. No jacket. In green cloth covers with leather strip on spine with gilt lettering. Gilt top edge. Intact binding. Clean text pages. No writing on endpapers. Bumping and fraying of ends of spine and corners. Moderate shlef wear. Thank you for your patronage.. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighboring squire—though he sometimes succumbs to the charms of the local girls. When Tom is banished to make his own fortune and Sophia follows him to London to escape an arranged marriage, the adventure begins. A vivid Hogarthian panorama of eighteenth-century life, spiced with danger and intrigue, bawdy exuberance and good-natured authorial interjections, Tom Jones is one of the greatest and most ambitious comic novels in English literature. Includes a chronology, suggestions for further reading, notes, glossary, and an appendix of Fielding's revisions Introduction discusses narrative tecniques and themes, the context of eighteenth-century fiction and satire, and the historical and political background of the Jacobite revolution  

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Bookseller
Quaker House Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
002230
Title
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( Vol. I)
Author
Henry Fielding
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Good
Publisher
The Century Co.
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1907
Size
8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
Keywords
FICTION, COMEDY
Bookseller catalogs
Fiction, Comedy;

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