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Tom Jones
Henry Fielding
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Description for Tom Jones
Paperback. Editor(s): Bender, John; Stern, Simon. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 976 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 666.
Fielding's comic masterpiece of 1749 was immediately attacked as `A motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery'. Indeed, his populous novel overflows with a marvellous assortment of prudes, whores, libertines, bumpkins, misanthropes, hypocrites, scoundrels, virgins, and all too fallible humanitarians. At the centre of one of the most ingenious plots in English fiction stands a hero whose actions were, in 1749, as shocking as they are funny today. Expelled from Mr Allworthy's country estate for his wild temper and sexual conquests, the good-hearted foundling Tom Jones loses his money, joins the army, and pursues his beloved across Britain to London, ... Read more
Fielding's comic masterpiece of 1749 was immediately attacked as `A motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery'. Indeed, his populous novel overflows with a marvellous assortment of prudes, whores, libertines, bumpkins, misanthropes, hypocrites, scoundrels, virgins, and all too fallible humanitarians. At the centre of one of the most ingenious plots in English fiction stands a hero whose actions were, in 1749, as shocking as they are funny today. Expelled from Mr Allworthy's country estate for his wild temper and sexual conquests, the good-hearted foundling Tom Jones loses his money, joins the army, and pursues his beloved across Britain to London, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
976
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Weight
665g
Number of Pages
976
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199536993
SKU
V9780199536993
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About Henry Fielding
John Bender is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Stanford University. He is author of Spenser and Literary Pictorialism and Imagining the Penitentiary: Fiction and Architecture of Mind in Eighteenth-Century England, co-editor of The Ends of Rhetoric and Chronotypes: The Construction of Time, and associate editor of The Columbia History of the British Novel. Simon Stern is completing a ... Read more
Reviews for Tom Jones
with each volume having an introduction by an acknowledged expert, and exhaustive notes, the World's Classics are surely the most desirable series and, all-round, the best value for money
Oxford Times
well-produced edition.
Daily Telegraph Arts & Books section, 5 July 1997
Oxford Times
well-produced edition.
Daily Telegraph Arts & Books section, 5 July 1997