Tom Jones
by Henry Fielding
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For Coleridge the plot of Tom Jones was, along with that of Oedipus The King, the most perfect ever constructed. Fielding used all his art and all the craft he had amassed as a successful playwright for the eighteenth-century London stage to tell this hugely entertaining story of a foundling and how he arrives, through sexual misadventures and elaborate disasters, to claim his legitimacy, his fortune, and his true love. Describes the foundling, Tom, who grows to be athletic, charismatic, generous, and filled with "the glorious lust of doing good" but with a tendency toward dissolution. He leaves home to seek his fortune and his real identity.
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Fiction, Foundlings, Young men, Identity (Psychology), Social life and customs, Foundlings in literature, NOVELAS INGLESAS, Aufsatzsammlung, Chronology, History, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), England, fiction, Fiction, humorous, Manners and customs, Picaresque literature, Classic Literature, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, humorous, general, Fiction, coming of age, English literature, Humorous stories, England -- Fiction, Bildungsromans, Young men -- Fiction, Foundlings -- Fiction, Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction, Fiction, humorous, black humor, Fiction, sagas, Fiction, classics, Fiction, general, Romans, nouvelles, Mœurs et coutumes, English fiction, Roman anglais, Enfants trouvés, Récits humoristiques, Identité (Psychologie), Jeunes hommesPeople
Henry Fielding (1707-1754), Henry (1707-1754) Fielding, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones (Fictitious character)Places
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18th centuryShowing 11 featured editions. View all 434 editions?
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The History of Tom Jones
1993, Wordsworth Classics
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Tom Jones. Die Geschichte eines Findlings.
1975, Artemis & Winkler
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Tom Jones: an authoritative text, contemporary reactions, criticism
1973, Norton
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The foundling Tom Jones is found on the property of a benevolent, wealthy landowner. Tom grows up to be a vigorous, kind-hearted young man, whose love of his neighbor's well-born daughter brings class friction to the fore. The presence of prostitution and promiscuity in Tom Jones caused a sensation at the time it was published, as such themes were uncommon. It is divided into 18 shorter books, and is considered one of the first English-language novels.
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