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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Penguin Classics) by Henry Fielding; Tom Keymer; Alice Wakely; Thomas Keymer is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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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 squirethough 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 For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplin
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- Author
- Henry Fielding; Tom Keymer; Alice Wakely; Thomas Keymer
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780140436228
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, History, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.73 / 5 (25,155 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
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- Tom Jones: An Authoritative Text, Contemporary Reactions, Criticism (Norton Critical Editions) (1973)
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