- Paperback: 864 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (13 Jan 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140620176
- ISBN-13: 978-0140620177
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 11.4 x 4.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 934,639 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Written by the author of "Amelia", this novel takes its wide-eyed hero from innocence to experience through inns and bedrooms from Somerset to London and back, while at the same time continuing a farcical debate about the true nature of the novelist's art.
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Back in 1749 Henry Fielding showed novellists just how it should be done when he published 'Tom Jones'. 250 years on and it is still simply one of the greatest books ever written. It's got everything: belly laughs, bawdiness, philosophy, love, tears and the sort of characters and settings that most people think only Dickens could do. All this and for only a pound! Great if you want a cheap 900 page read. But not a book for the conscientious student. Such an old and important novel as 'Tom Jones' does require a certain amount of historicising and contextualising, not to mention annotation, for the modern reader to get the most out of it. Admittedly some would say that this defeats the object of reading if you're having to constantly refer to notes or needing to be guided in your interpretation by an introductory essay, and they wouldn't be wrong. But it's comforting to have the option of being able to look up a reference or a note in the back should you want to. Naturally for their price these classics aren't heavily annotated and editorial input is sketchy at best. They are often not based on authoritative copy-texts either. But as I said above this is still great value for the price and if it gets more people reading then that's fine by me. Students - beware. General readers - welcome!
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This is a fantastic 18th century novel and written superbly by probably the master of this type of story, Henry Fielding. I believe it was written in opposition to the highly moralising and self righteous novels of Samuel Richardson which Fielding found full of hypocrisy.
All in all this is a great romp through the age it was set in and is full of humour. There is also a fantastic film adaptation starring Albert Finney and made in the 1960s which takes some of the 60s themes into account as well.
All in all this is a great romp through the age it was set in and is full of humour. There is also a fantastic film adaptation starring Albert Finney and made in the 1960s which takes some of the 60s themes into account as well.
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