A Journey from This World to the Next - Softcover

Fielding, Henry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0554107562 ISBN 13: 9780554107561

Publisher: BiblioBazaar, 2007

Synopsis

"Whether the ensuing pages were really the dream or vision of some very pious and holy person; or whether they were really written in the other world¿" pontificates Fielding.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This unique double edition brings together Henry Fielding's two voyage narratives. A Journey from this World to the Next (1743) and The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon (1755) belong, in different ways, to the travel-writing tradition, and show Fielding standing in ironic relation to the genre. The Journey is a powerful yet playful narrative, in which Fielding anatomizes contemporary follies with his customary vigour. Using the form of a journey through the underworld, he satirizes all claims to historical and political greatness. The Journal, published posthumously, recounts Fielding's last adventure. Ruined in health by overwork and a punishing lifestyle, he set sail for Lisbon in 1754 with the desperate hope of recuperating in a better climate. Though incapacitated and enduring the squalor and frustrations of a long voyage, Fielding wrote with vitality and wit throughout the journey. Vividly recording the bizarre characters he met, detailing comic and moving incidents, commenting on everything around him, his words transmit the keenness of his life rather than the imminence of his death. The introductions and notes to these lesser-known but fascinating texts illuminate their place in Fielding's work and eighteenth-century literature as a whole.

About the Author:

Henry Fielding, a proficient English novelist and dramatist, is famous for his humorous and satirical portrayal of characters. Noted for his political satires, as a novelist he wrote comic epic poems in prose.

About this edition

• Publisher: BiblioBazaar
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0554107562
• ISBN 13: 9780554107561
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 142