TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fielding H.
TI  - Tom Jones
T2  - Penguin Popular Classics
SN  - 9780140620177
PY  - 1994///
CY  - London
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - 821.111 Англійська література
KW  - UDC
N2  - Tom Jones is one of the first and finest English comic novels.

Henry Fielding’s high-spirited hero is a foundling of mysterious origins, discovered abandoned one night in the bed of the wealthy and benevolent Mr Allworthy. Tom’s intrigues, amours and picaresque adventures, and how he pursues and wins the lovely and apparently unattainable Sophia Western, are the ingredients of a gloriously elaborate plot.

The novel appeared in 1749 to a mixture of consternation and applause. Fielding’s blithe and racy humour, his insight into sexual ethics and social hypocrisy and his preoccupation with happiness as well as goodness give us, in Tom Jones, anunrivalled entertainment
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