Tom Jones (Modern Library) - Hardcover

Fielding, Henry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679602879 ISBN 13: 9780679602873

Verlag: Random House Inc, 1998

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Book by Fielding Henry

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A companion edition to a new television version shown on the Arts & Entertainment network follows the famous foundling, raised by the kindly Squire Allworthy and his sister, on his comic quest for fame and fortune. 10,000 first printing. TV tie-in.

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reat comic novels in the English language, Tom Jones was an instant success when it was published in 1749: Ten thousand copies were sold in its first year. A foundling, Tom is discovered one evening by the benevolent Squire Allworthy and his sister Bridget and brought up as a son in their household until it is time for him to set out in search of both his fortune and his true identity.

Amorous, high-spirited, and filled with what Fielding called "the glorious lust of doing good" but with a tendency toward dissolution, Tom Jones is one of the first characters in fiction to display legitimate sides of human virtue and vice. "Upon my word, I think Tom Jones is one of the most perfect plots ever planned," said Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Now, Tom Jones has been brought to television in a magnificent new co-production from A&E Network and BBC television. Max Beesley stars as Tom, with Samantha Morton (who appeared in A&E's Emma and Jane Eyre) as Sophia. Th

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• Verlag: Random House Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0679602879
• ISBN 13: 9780679602873
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 992