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Tom Jones

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Tom Jones

Novel (1749) by Henry Fielding. The story tells of a foundling, Tom Jones, led astray by the impetuousness of his own nature. He has many adventures, which take him through scenes of uproarious 18th-century life, until he is finally redeemed by his own good heart and the love of the beautiful Sophia Western. A large, self-indulgent work, full of broad, high-spirited effects, it is one of the early great landmarks of the novel form.

Tom Jones

Opera by Philidor (libretto by A A H Poinsinet, based on Henry Fielding's novel), produced at the Comédie-Italienne, Paris, on 27 February 1765.



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I have been Tom Jones (a child's Tom Jones, a harmless creature) for a week together.
David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles View in context
Tom Jones is virtually Henry Fielding in his youth and is thoroughly lifelike, but Squire Allworthy, intended as an example of benevolent perfection, is no less of a pale abstraction than Sir Charles Grandison.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
Though no more Old English than the works of Kipling, it had selected its reminiscences so adroitly that her criticism was lulled, and the guests whom it was nourishing for imperial purposes bore the outer semblance of Parson Adams or Tom Jones.
Howards End by Forster, E. M. View in context
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