"The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. It is both a ""Bildungsroman"" and a picaresque novel. It was first published on 28 February 1749 in London, and is among the earliest English prose works to be classified as a novel. It is the earliest novel mentioned by W. Somerset Maugham in his 1948 book ""Great Novelists and Their Novels"" among the ten best novels of the world. It totals 346,747 words divided into 18 smaller books,"
"Henry Fielding Henry Fielding (22 April 1707 – 8 October 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich, earthy humour and satirical prowess, and as the author of the picaresque novel ""Tom Jones"". Additionally, he holds a significant place in the history of law enforcement, having used his authority as a magistrate to found (with his half-brother John) what some have called London's first police force, the Bow Street Runners. His younger sister, Sarah, also became a successful writer. Fielding was born at Sharpham, Somerset, and educated at Eton College, where he established a lifelong friendship with"
"each preceded by a discursive chapter, often on topics unrelated to the book itself. It is dedicated to George Lyttleton. The novel is highly organized, despite its length. Samuel Taylor Coleridge argued that it has one of the ""three most perfect plots ever planned."" It became a bestseller, with four editions being published in its first year alone. ""Tom Jones"" is generally regarded as Fielding's greatest book and as a very influential English novel. The novel's events occupy eighteen books. The book opens with the narrator stating that the purpose of the novel will be to explore ""human nature."" The"
"that ""Candide"" draws on Pierre-Antoine de La Place's 1750 novel, ""Histoire de Tom Jones, ou l’enfant trouvé"", a French adaptation of Henry Fielding's ""The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling"". ""A close reading of ""Candide"" and ""L'Enfant trouvé"","" Langille has written, ""reveals an astonishing network of verbal, thematic and narrative analogies, which strongly reinforces the thesis that Voltaire's novel owes a great deal to La Place, in terms of the characters it portrays, the narrative that binds those characters together, and the language in which the whole is expressed."" Elsewhere, Langille has noted that La Place's adaptation eliminates Fielding's ""consistent,"
"Fielding's ""Tom Jones"" employs a third person narrative and features a narrator who is virtually another character in the novel itself. Fielding constantly disrupts the illusionary identification of the reader with the characters by referring to the prose itself and uses his narrative style to posit antitheses of characters and action. Tom is a bastard and a foundling who is cared for by Squire Allworthy, who is a man of great good nature. This squire is benevolent and salutary to his community and his family. Allworthy's sister has a child who is born to a high position but who has"
"of words that were always uttered in a lulling monotony, and the little meaning they had to boast of was generally borrowed from the commonplace maxims and sentiments of moralists, philosophers, patriots, and poets, crudely imbibed, half digested, ill put together, and confusedly refunded.” Lord Lyttelton was a friend and supporter of Alexander Pope in the 1730s and of Henry Fielding in the 1750s; the latter dedicated his novel ""Tom Jones"" to Lyttelton. He had written his “Epistle to Mr. Pope, from a young gentleman at Rome” while still on European tour, advising him to abandon satire for a patriotic"
"divides them into four main categories: fictional accounts of the play's composition, simplifications of the story for young readers, stories expanding the role of one or more characters, and narratives featuring performances of the play. ""Hamlet"" is one of the most-quoted works in the English language, and often included on lists of the world's greatest literature. As such, it has proved a pervasive influence in literature. For instance, Henry Fielding's ""Tom Jones"", published about 1749, merely describes a visit to ""Hamlet"" by Tom Jones and Mr Partridge. In contrast, Goethe's Bildungsroman ""Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship"", written between 1776–1796 not only has"
"Tom Jones (Philidor) Tom Jones is a comédie mêlée d'ariettes, a kind of opéra comique, by the French composer François-André Danican Philidor which first appeared at the Comédie-Italienne, Paris, on 27 February 1765. Its French libretto, by Antoine-Alexandre-Henri Poisenet and Bertin Davesne, is loosely based on the novel by Henry Fielding. The opera was initially a failure but Philidor had the libretto revised by Michel-Jean Sedaine and this new version, first performed on 30 January 1766, proved one of the most popular ""opéras comiques"" of the late 18th century. It was produced in a number of other countries, and translated"
"Fairyland"", the Seymour Hicks/Charles Frohman organisation hired him as it chief lyricist. From 1904 to 1907 he supplied the lyrics to the four shows that the team wrote and produced with music by Herbert Haines. ""The Catch of the Season"" (1904) and ""The Beauty of Bath"" (1906) were particularly successful. His last work, ""Tom Jones"", was a collaboration with his Courtneidge, who had co-written an opera libretto adaptation of Henry Fielding's novel ""The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling"". Taylor supplied the lyrics, and Edward German wrote the music. Some of the songs such as ""For Tonight"" (sometimes recorded as"
"of Denbigh, Cecilia Mary Feilding (née Clifford), Dorothie was one of ten children, three boys and seven girls, and a distant relative of Henry Fielding, author of ""Tom Jones"". As a child she was educated at home at Newnham Paddox, Monks Kirby, Warwickshire, and at the Convent of the Assumption in Paris, where she became fluent in French. She made her debut in May 1908 at the age of 18, being presented to the King and Queen of England by her mother. Like many of her siblings, Feilding felt the need to do her part when war broke out. Three"
"1907, Thompson and Courtneidge adapted Henry Fielding's ""Tom Jones"" as a comic opera with music by Edward German, also at the Apollo. Two years later, at the Shaftesbury Theatre, he collaborated on the hit musical ""The Arcadians"", one of the most famous and enduring musicals of its era. In 1911, Thompson wrote a book describing his travels in Germany, Russia, China, Spain and, especially, Japan, entitled ""Japan for a Week, Britain Forever"", published by J. Lane. ""The Manchester Guardian"" commented that the book ""revealed his powers both as a stylist and as a keen observer."" Thompson returned to writing for"
"into German, Swedish and Russian. François-André Danican Philidor: ""Tom Jones"", Lausanne Opera and Le Sinfonietta de Lausanne Tom Jones (Philidor) Tom Jones is a comédie mêlée d'ariettes, a kind of opéra comique, by the French composer François-André Danican Philidor which first appeared at the Comédie-Italienne, Paris, on 27 February 1765. Its French libretto, by Antoine-Alexandre-Henri Poisenet and Bertin Davesne, is loosely based on the novel by Henry Fielding. The opera was initially a failure but Philidor had the libretto revised by Michel-Jean Sedaine and this new version, first performed on 30 January 1766, proved one of the most popular ""opéras"
"Illustrated fiction Illustrated fiction is a hybrid narrative medium in which images and text work together to tell a story. It can take various forms, including fiction written for adults or children, magazine fiction, comic strips, and picture books. Apart from an occasional portrait or map, 18th century fiction was not usually illustrated, as publishers did not commission illustrations for new novels. In the novel ""The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling"", the author Henry Fielding refers to paintings by William Hogarth in order to explain what some of his characters look like. Illustrations were commissioned for already successful books."
"to ""Tom Jones"" by Henry Fielding: ""As with all such accounts, this one appeals to our inner orphan, the sense we have that we are alone and have a lot to learn. Also like ""Tom Jones"", it's funny. ... If it seems strange for Déon, writing in the mid-70s, to resurrect Fielding, his impulse might have had something to do with the political situation at the time, still roiled by the aftermath of the civil unrest of 1968. As we read ""Tom Jones"", we are more or less ignorant of or indifferent to the political climate of Tom's and Fielding's"
"is a masterpiece of psychological realism and emotional effect, and when Richardson was drawing to a close in the serial publication, even Henry Fielding wrote to him, begging him not to kill Clarissa. As with ""Pamela"", Richardson emphasized the individual over the social and the personal over the class. Even as Fielding was reading and enjoying ""Clarissa"", he was also writing a counter to its messages. His ""Tom Jones"" of 1749 offers up the other side of the argument from ""Clarissa"". ""Tom Jones"" agrees substantially in the power of the individual to be more or less than his or her"
"text of ""Joseph Andrews"" from Project Gutenberg Joseph Andrews Joseph Andrews, or The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams, was the first published full-length novel of the English author Henry Fielding, and indeed among the first novels in the English language. Published in 1742 and defined by Fielding as a ""comic epic poem in prose"", it is the story of a good-natured footman's adventures on the road home from London with his friend and mentor, the absent-minded parson Abraham Adams. The novel represents the coming together of the two competing aesthetics of"
"Thom Jones Thomas Douglas ""Thom"" Jones (January 26, 1945 – October 14, 2016) was an American writer, primarily of short stories. Jones was raised in Aurora, Illinois, where he went to public schools. He went to college at the University of Hawaii, where he played catcher on the baseball team. He later attended the University of Washington, from which he graduated in 1970. He studied at the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, from which he received an M.F.A. in 1973. Jones trained in Force Reconnaissance in the Marine Corps but was discharged before his unit was sent"
"Siddons played the heroine. Reed's friend, Joseph Ritson, prepared it for the press in 1792; but, although it was at once printed, it was not announced for publication till 1808. Before the day of publication arrived, however, all the copies were burnt in the fire at Nichols's printing-office, and it was never reprinted. Reed was a friend of the author Henry Fielding who had had great success with the novel, ""The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling"". Reed worked on an adaption of the story as a comic opera, a project that Fielding encouraged. The drama opened on 14 January"
"in the novel ""Tom Jones"" (1794) by Henry Fielding, in ""The Vicar of Wakefield"" (1766) by Oliver Goldsmith, and in the 1960s by Italian actress Sophia Loren (b. 1934). ""Sophia"" was comparatively popular in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th century; its use declined in the 1920s to 1950s; it became again moderately popular during the 1960s to 1980s. During the 1990s to 2010s the popularity of the name rose dramatically in many countries throughout the western world. Suggested influences for this trend include Sofía Vergara and Sofia Coppola (popular from the late 1990s) and Sofia"
"Tom Sawyer Thomas Sawyer () is the title character of the Mark Twain novel ""The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"" (1876). He appears in three other novels by Twain: ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" (1884), ""Tom Sawyer Abroad"" (1894), and ""Tom Sawyer, Detective"" (1896). Sawyer also appears in at least three unfinished Twain works, ""Huck and Tom Among the Indians"", ""Schoolhouse Hill"" and ""Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy"". While all three uncompleted works were posthumously published, only ""Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy"" has a complete plot, as Twain abandoned the other two works after finishing only a few chapters. Tom Sawyer is a boy of about"
"A. H. M. Jones Arnold Hugh Martin Jones FBA (9 March 1904 – 9 April 1970) — known as A. H. M. Jones or Hugo Jones — was a prominent 20th century British historian of classical antiquity, particularly of the later Roman Empire. Jones's best-known work, ""The Later Roman Empire, 284–602"" (1964), is considered the definitive narrative history of late Rome and early Byzantium, beginning with the reign of the Roman tetrarch Diocletian and ending with that of the Byzantine emperor Maurice. One of the most common modern criticisms of this work is its almost total reliance on literary and"
"style tempers the basic seriousness of the novel, and his authorial comment preceding each chapter adds a significant dimension to the conventionally straightforward narrative. Fielding married Charlotte Craddock in 1734 at the Church of St Mary in Charlcombe, Somerset. She died in 1744, and he later modelled the heroines of both ""Tom Jones"" and ""Amelia"" on her. They had five children together; their only daughter Henrietta died at age 23, having already been ""in deep decline"" when she married military engineer James Gabriel Montresor some months before. Three years after Charlotte's death, Fielding disregarded public opinion by marrying her former"
"images to convey action were a great influence on children and young people. Comic books had a unique storytelling potential. Illustrated fiction Illustrated fiction is a hybrid narrative medium in which images and text work together to tell a story. It can take various forms, including fiction written for adults or children, magazine fiction, comic strips, and picture books. Apart from an occasional portrait or map, 18th century fiction was not usually illustrated, as publishers did not commission illustrations for new novels. In the novel ""The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling"", the author Henry Fielding refers to paintings by"
"of Late Antiquity, a period which did not exist as a separate field of study during his lifetime. Late Antiquity scholars frequently refer to him, however, and his enormous contributions to the study of the period are widely acknowledged. A. H. M. Jones Arnold Hugh Martin Jones FBA (9 March 1904 – 9 April 1970) — known as A. H. M. Jones or Hugo Jones — was a prominent 20th century British historian of classical antiquity, particularly of the later Roman Empire. Jones's best-known work, ""The Later Roman Empire, 284–602"" (1964), is considered the definitive narrative history of late Rome"
"those who abuse their power. Fielding's expanded version of ""Tom Thumb"", ""The Tragedy of Tragedies"", first ran on 24 March 1731. Its printed edition was ""edited"" and ""commented"" on by Fielding's pseudonym H. Scriblerus Secundus who pretends not to be the original author, and it contains a frontispiece by Hogarth, which serves as the earliest proof of a relationship between Fielding and Hogarth. There are few major changes to the plot's outline except that Grizzle became Tom's rival for Huncamunca's heart, and Tom is not killed by Grizzle. Instead, Tom is able to defeat Grizzle, which changes the outcome of"
"to 1949, and President from 1950 to 1967. In 1909, Jones wrote the short ""Pronunciation of English"", a book he later radically revised. The resulting work, ""An Outline of English Phonetics"", followed in 1918 and is the first truly comprehensive description of British Received Pronunciation, and the first such description of the standard pronunciation of any language. The year 1917 was a landmark for Jones in many ways. He became the first linguist in the western world to use the term phoneme in its current sense, employing the word in his article ""The phonetic structure of the Sechuana Language"". Jones"
"Thomas Hughes Jones Thomas Hughes Jones (23 January 1895 – 11 May 1966) was a Welsh poet and writer from Ceredigion (Cardiganshire) in West Wales. He wrote several collections of stories and contributed to various journals, including ""Welsh Outlook"", throughout his career. In 1940 he won the Literature Medal for his story, ""Sqweier Hafila"", at the National Eisteddfod. His pen name was generally abbreviated to ""T. Hughes Jones"". His name is inscribed on the memorial to the poets of Mynydd Bach. Jones was born in Blaenpennal to Rhys Jones and Ann Hughes along with his younger sister, Jane. His mother"
"to purchase pages that they were missing from their own editions of the Gutenberg Bible. Wells gifted the New York Public Library with all but one of the leaves that it was missing from its collection. In 1939, Wells was embroiled in legal action after John Hayward discovered that Lord Victor Rothschild's first edition of Henry Fielding's ""Tom Jones"" was not authentic. Some of the pages were from another edition. Rothschild had paid £3,500 for the book including another work. The matter was settled out of court after a whole chain of dealers were shown not to have noticed the"
"Thomas Fleming (historian) Thomas James Fleming (July 5, 1927 – July 23, 2017) was an American historian and historical novelist and the author of over forty nonfiction and fiction titles. His work reflects a particular interest on the American Revolution, with titles such as ""Liberty! The American Revolution And The Future Of America, Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the History of America"" and ""Washington's Secret War: The Hidden History of Valley Forge"". A native of Jersey City, New Jersey, Fleming graduated from St. Peter's Preparatory School and from Fordham University in 1950, serving a year in the United States"
"must reject war totally."" He was awarded CBE in the 1937 Coronation Honours. T. Gwynn Jones Professor Thomas Gwynn Jones C.B.E. (10 October 1871 – 7 March 1949), more widely known as T. Gwynn Jones, was a leading Welsh poet, scholar, literary critic, novelist, translator, and journalist who did important work in Welsh literature, Welsh education, and the study of Welsh folk tales in the first half of the twentieth century. He was also an accomplished translator into Welsh of works from English, German, Greek, and Irish. Born Thomas Jones at 'Y Gwyndy Uchaf' in Betws-yn-Rhos, Denbighshire, Wales, the eldest"
"horn"" ""To a Lady before Marriage"" (published posthumously in 1749) Fielding: ""'What the devil would you have me do?' cries the Squire, turning to Blifil, 'I can no more turn her, than a beagle can turn an old hare.'"" ""The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling"" (1749) Chapter 7. Cowper: ""For persevering chase and headlong leaps, True beagle as the staunchest hound he keeps"" ""The Progress of Error"" (1782) Pope: ""Thus on a roe the well-breath'd beagle flies, And rends his hide fresh-bleeding with the dart"" ""The Iliad of Homer"" (1715–20) Book XV:697–8 Citations Bibliography Beagle The Beagle is a"
"whose charms and Amazonian gallantry had captivated a prince, afterwards died in a stair-foot somewhere in the Canongate"". Jenny Cameron is mentioned in ""The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling"" by Henry Fielding (1749). In Book 11, young Miss Sophia Western is mistaken for Jenny Cameron, mistress of Bonnie Prince Charlie. If she was born in 1695, Jeanie Cameron would have been 50 years old in 1745 and Sophia Western would hardly have been mistaken for her, and the Prince, who was 25 at the time, was unlikely to have a 50-year-old mistress. This has fuelled speculation that there were"
"final penance. By proving his willingness to do things he does not like, if they are the right things to do, Tom earns himself a return to human form, and becomes ""a great man of science"" who ""can plan railways, and steam-engines, and electric telegraphs, and rifled guns, and so forth"". He and Ellie are united, although the book states (perhaps jokingly) that they never marry, claiming that in fairy tales, no one beneath the rank of prince and princess ever marries. The book ends with the caveat that it is only a fairy tale, and the reader is to"