TOM JONES, (HISTORY OF A FOUNDLING)

FIELDING, HENRY. BATTESIN, MARTIN C. INTRO; BOWERS, FREDSON, ED.

ISBN 10: 0394605195 / ISBN 13: 9780394605197

Published by Modern Library, NY, 1985

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VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD CLIPT(NOPR ICE) DUST JACKET. CLEAN, SOLID, BRIGHT. VERY ATTRACTIVE BOOK & SIMILAR DJ.; GOLD SPINE TITLES ON DARK BROWN HARD COVERS. VERSO DUST JACKET HAS LONG LIST OF OTHER MODERN LIBRARY TITLES.; 982pg pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: TOM JONES, (HISTORY OF A FOUNDLING)
• Publisher: Modern Library, NY
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394605195
• ISBN 13: 9780394605197
• Binding: Spine #7
• Illustrator: Illustrated by ALCORN, STEPHEN WOODCUT DJ
• Edition: First Modern Ed.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)

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.

About the Author

Fredson Bowers was a professor of literature at the University of Virginia for more than forty years and a preeminent textual critic.

Martin C. Battestin is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English at the University of Virginia and a leading scholar on Henry Fielding. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.


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