Tom Jones

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Henry Fielding John Bender (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Stanford University, California)

Tom Jones

Henry Fielding, John Bender (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Stanford University, California), Simon Stern (, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto)

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Worlds Classics
14 August 2008

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Series: Oxford World's Classics

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, where he becomes a kept lover and confronts the possibility of incest. Tom Jones is rightly regarded as Fielding's greatest work, and one of the first and most influential of English novels.

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 eighteenth-century public sphere.

ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

By: Henry Fielding
Edited by: John Bender (Professor of English and Comparative Literature Professor of English and Comparative Literature Stanford University California), Simon Stern (, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto)
Imprint: Worlds Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 42mm
Weight: 662g
ISBN: 9780199536993
ISBN 10: 0199536996
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Pages: 976
Publication Date: 14 August 2008
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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