The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling

Description

A vivid panorama of eighteenth-century life, Tom Jones by Henry Fielding is one of the greatest and most ambitious comic novels in English literature. A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighboring squire. When Tom is banished to make his own fortune and Sophia follows him to London to escape an arranged marriage, the adventure begins.

Part of Anne Haight's List of Banned Books.

Part of the Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Great Books of the Western World set.

This book has 970 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1749.

Production notes: This ebook of The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling was published by Global Grey in 2019.