Fielding Henry:
Tom Jones
Editor: JohnBender
Oxford University Press (United Kingdom), 2008
Paperback, 976 pages
Size: 196x129 mm
ISBN: 9780199536993
ISBN-10: 0199536996
List price: £7.99
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Tom Jones
Tom Jones is rightly regarded as Fielding's greatest work, and one of the first and most influential of English novels. Attacked at the time as `A motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery', it overflows with a marvellous assortment of prudes, whores, libertines, bumpkins, misanthropes, hypocrites, scoundrels, virgins, and all too fallible humanitarians. This carefully modernized edition is based on Fielding's emended fourth edition text and offers the most thorough notes, maps, and bibliography. The introduction uses the latest scholarship to examine how Tom Jones exemplifies the role of the novel in the emerging

