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Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury Tom Jones is widely regarded as one of the first and most influential English novels. It is certainly the funniest. Tom Jones, the hero of the book, is introduced to the reader as the ward of a liberal Somerset squire. Tom is a generous but slightly wild and feckless country boy with a weakness for young women.... (more)

History of the adventures of Joseph Andrews

History of the adventures of Joseph Andrews

by Henry Fielding

Joseph Andrews, refuses Lady Booby’s advances, she discharges him, and Joseph—in the company of his old tutor, Parson Adams (one of the great comic figures of literature)—sets out from London to visit his sweetheart, Fanny. Along the way, the two travelers meet with a series of adventures—some hilarious, some heartstopping—in which through their own innocence and honesty they expose the hypocrisy and affectation... (more)

Amelia

by Henry Fielding

". . . More delicately faithful and true are Colonel James and his wife. They are both very good sort of people in a way, who live in a lax and frivolous age, who have plenty of money, no particular principle, no strong affection for each other, and little individual character. They might have been -- Mrs. James to some extent is -- quite estimable and harmless; but even as it is, they are not to be wholly ill... (more)

Joseph Andrews and Shamela (Oxford World's Classics)

Joseph Andrews and Shamela (Oxford World's Classics)

by Henry Fielding

"Shamela" is a brilliant parody of Samuel Richardson's "Pamela", in which a virtuous servant girl long resists her master's advances and is eventually 'rewarded' with marriage. Fielding's far more spirited and sexually honest heroine, by contrast, merely uses coyness and mock modesty as techniques to catch a rich husband. "Joseph Andrews", Fielding's first full-length novel, can also be seen as a response to... (more)

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Tom Jones

by Henry Fielding

History of the adventures of Joseph Andrews

by Henry Fielding

Amelia

by Henry Fielding

Joseph Andrews and Shamela (Oxford World's Classics)

by Henry Fielding

Joseph Andrews

by Henry Fielding

Joseph Andrews