Description
Fielding’s comic masterpiece, first published in 1749, overflows with prudes, whores, libertines, bumpkins, misanthropes, hypocrites, scoundrels, virgins and all-too-fallible humanitarians. At the centre of its ingenious plot stands Tom Jones, a good-hearted foundling whose wild temper and sexual conquests lead to his expulsion from Mr Allworthy’s country estate. After losing his money, joining the army and pursuing his beloved across Britain to London, Tom becomes a kept lover and confronts the possibility of incest. This carefully modernized edition is based on Fielding’s emended fourth-edition text and includes extensive notes, maps and a bibliography. Its introduction uses the latest scholarship to examine how the novel reflects the emerging eighteenth-century public sphere.
Information
Author: Fielding Henry
Language: English
Publication date: August 14, 2008
Manufacturer: MEGABOOKS CZ-Distribuční centrum Vyškov
Genres: English literature, Books, Foreign language books
Type: Paperback book
Pages: 976
ISBN/EAN: 9780199536993