Tom Jones (Modern Library Classics)

HENRY FIELDING

ISBN 10: 0812966074 / ISBN 13: 9780812966077

Published by Modern Library September 2002, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tom Jones (Modern Library Classics)
• Publisher: Modern Library September 2002
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0812966074
• ISBN 13: 9780812966077
• Binding: Paper Back
• Condition: Used
• Seller catalogs:
  • Classics

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Synopsis

Tom, a foundling, is discovered one evening by the benevolent Squire Allworthy and his sister Bridget and brought up as a son in their household; when his sexual escapades and general misbehavior lead them to banish him, he sets out in search of both his fortune and his true identity. Amorous, high-spirited, and filled with what Fielding called “the glorious lust of doing good,” but with a tendency toward dissolution, Tom Jones is one of the first characters in English fiction whose human virtues and vices are realistically depicted. This edition is set from the text of the Wesleyan Edition of the Works of Henry Fielding.

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.