Fielding, Henry

Young Tom Jones, pure-hearted and warm-blooded, gets involved with the whole spectrum of human virtue and vice.

Joseph, a footman in eighteenth-century England, must protect his virtue from the advances of several women, including Lady Booby and Betty, a chamber maid.

Joseph, a footman in eighteenth-century England, must protect his virtue from the advances of several women, including Lady Booby, and Betty, a chambermaid.

Describes the foundling, Tom, who grows to be athletic, charismatic, generous, and filled with "the glorious lust of doing good" but with a tendency toward dissolution. He leaves home to seek his fortune and his real identity.

Presents Henry Fielding's 1749 comic novel in which Tom Jones, abandoned as an infant, is adopted by Squire Allworthy and amuses himself with amorous escapades until the day he decides to leave home and seek his fortune and real identity. Includes an introduction, a chronology, a glossary, explanatory notes, and an appendix on Fielding's revisions.

Describes the foundling, Tom Jones, who grows up to be charismatic and generous, but with a tendency toward dissipation.