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.