History of Tom Jones, a Foundling - Volume 3 of 6 (Picked for You, Band 3) - Hardcover

Henry Fielding

Hardcover

ISBN 13: 9798259514911

Verlag: Clearview Editions, 2026

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History of Tom Jones, a Foundling - Liftable Edition, Volume 3 of 6 by Henry Fielding, originally published 1749. A foundling's misadventures across Georgian England, written with a moral seriousness its comic surface disguises. This is a Liftable Edition: Clearview caps paper-plus-binding weight at 1 kilogram (2.2 pounds) for every Liftable title, so it stays comfortable to hold and read for extended periods -- a physical accessibility standard most large-print publishers do not set at all. For collection development: this is a large-print edition intended for low-vision and aging patrons, and for any reader who finds standard trade print tiring over a long sitting. It suits large-print and accessibility collections, adult and young-adult general collections where the text is a standard, and reading-room copies where a durable case binding matters. Each volume is held under 1 kilogram (2.2 pounds) of paper and binding, so it can be read at a table or in a lap without a stand. The text is unabridged and reproduced from a public-domain source without modernisation. Algorithmic Quality Assurance: this edition was checked by 123 deterministic tests covering typography, pagination, colour, cover geometry and metadata, then read by frontier language models for semantic review and holistic evaluation. What was checked, and what those results do and do not mean, is explained in the back of the book. This Clearview Editions hardcover is built on a production standard that significantly exceeds the industry norm for large-print publishing. The body text is set at 18-point Atkinson Hyperlegible Next on 27-point leading, 1.5 line spacing --- the minimum WCAG 2.2 Level AAA Success Criterion 1.4.8 sets for a block of text, and the figure UKAAF's large-print guidance gives as well. The leading North American large-print hardcover imprints typically set their body text at 16 point, and most large-print trade paperbacks release at 14 to 16 point. At 18 point, Clearview Editions offers text that is measurably larger than every other major large-print publisher, specifically for readers with low vision, macular degeneration, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, or any visual condition that makes standard trade print frustrating or impossible to read for long stretches. The trim size is equally generous. Clearview Editions is printed on a 7x10-inch page, substantially larger than the 6x9 hardcover that is standard in the large-print industry and roughly 50 percent larger by area than the 5x8 trade paperback trim most legacy large-print paperback imprints use. The extra page area is deliberate: it allows the 18-point body to set at the 50-to-55 character line length that reading-fatigue research identifies as optimal, without the narrow text columns and cramped margins that plague smaller-trim large-print books. The body font, Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, was developed by the Braille Institute of America specifically to maximize letter recognition for readers with low vision, macular degeneration, and visual processing differences. It distinguishes between commonly-confused letter pairs - lowercase l versus uppercase I, the digit 0 versus uppercase O, b versus d, p versus q - using distinctive shape features that preserve readability even under eye strain. Text is set ragged right with no word division: WCAG 2.2 1.4.8 and UKAAF both advise against justifying large-print text, since the uneven word spacing it creates is harder to track, and against breaking a word across a line ending, since the reader then has to reassemble it. The text of this edition is faithfully preserved from the original public-domain source with the full structural integrity of parts and chapters as the author intended, and every part and chapter is bookmarked in the PDF outline for readers using digital reading devices or reading software.

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Henry Fielding (1707-1754) is, with Samuel Richardson, one of the two writers credited with establishing the English novel as a serious literary form in the mid-eighteenth century, and Tom Jones (1749) is the book on which that half of the credit chiefly rests. Fielding called it a "comic epic poem in prose," and its architecture - a vast cast, converging subplots, a narrator who steps forward to comment on his own craft - set a template that Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and William Makepeace Thackeray all worked from, whether or not they said so directly. Samuel Taylor Coleridge later named Tom Jones's plot one of the three most perfect ever planned, alongside Sophocles's Oedipus Tyrannus and Ben Jonson's The Alchemist, a judgment literary historians still cite when the novel's technical construction comes up. Fielding's own life gives the book an unusual second layer of authority. Trained as a barrister, he became a London magistrate in 1748 - the year before Tom Jones was published - and in that role founded the Bow Street Runners, generally regarded as London's first organized police force. He wrote his most famous comic novel, in other words, while actively working the machinery of law, crime, and punishment that Tom Jones's plot repeatedly turns on, from foundling status and property law to the threat of the gallows. The appeal to readers has outlasted the eighteenth-century satire it was built to deliver: Tom Jones is genuinely funny, plotted with the density of a modern mystery, and populated with characters who feel like people rather than moral counters. This Clearview Editions large-print printing - 18-point Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, ragged-right, with no word-division - makes one of the earliest great English novels accessible in full, unabridged length to low-vision and aging readers for whom a book this long is normally out of reach.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Clearview Editions
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798259514911
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 392
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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