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Tom Jones: Introduction by Claude Rawson

Tom Jones: Introduction by Claude Rawson

Fielding, Henry
Rawson, Claude

Hardcover

Series: Everyman's Library Classics

Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $30.00

ISBN10: 0679405690
ISBN13: 9780679405696
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: Nov 26 1991
Pages: 427
Weight: 1.92
Height: 1.91 Width: 5.47 Depth: 8.32
Language: English
One of the first and most influential of English novels--originally published in 1749--is blessed with a lively and endearing hero at the center of one of the most ingeniously constructed comic plots in fiction. - Inspiration for the PBS MASTERPIECE series Tom Jones starring Solly McLeod, Sophie Wilde and Hannah Waddingham

Tom Jones, a foundling brought up in the household of the benevolent Squire Allworthy, falls in love with the beautiful heiress Sophia Western, whose father forbids them to marry on grounds of Tom's low birth. Tom is a lusty, high-spirited yet good-hearted soul, and after he is banished by his guardian for youthful misbehavior he heads to London to make his own fortune, with the smitten Sophia in pursuit.

A series of bawdy escapades and assorted scrapes ensues, including a duel and a stint in prison, before the mystery of Tom's birth is unraveled. Fielding used all the dramatic skill he had amassed as a successful playwright for the London stage to tell this hugely entertaining story of a flawed but generous hero claiming his true identity and his true love.

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