The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling - Book 7 (Unabridged)

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling - Book 7 (Unabridged)

Title: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling - Book 7 (Unabridged)
Author: Henry Fielding
Release: 2022-08-07
Kind: audiobook
Genre: Classics
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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling - Henry Fielding
A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. 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. When Tom is banished to make his own fortune and Sophia follows him to London to escape an arranged marriage, the adventure begins. 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. BOOK 7: The world hath been often compared to the theatre; and many grave writers, as well as the poets, have considered human life as a great drama, resembling, in almost every particular, those scenical representations which Thespis is first reported to have invented, and which have been since received with so much approbation and delight in all polite countries.

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