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Introduction discusses narrative tecniques and themes, the context of eighteenth-century fiction and satire, and the historical and political background of the Jacobite revolutionįor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world.Includes a chronology, suggestions for further reading, notes, glossary, and an appendix of Fielding's revisions.A vivid Hogarthian panorama of eighteenth-century life, spiced with danger and intrigue, bawdy exuberance and good-natured authorial interjections, Tom Jones is one of the greatest and most ambitious comic novels in English literature. When Tom is banished to make his own fortune and Sophia follows him to London to escape an arranged marriage, the adventure begins. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighboring squire-though he sometimes succumbs to the charms of the local girls. A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr.
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