Tom Jones, Henry Fielding
Tom Jones, Henry Fielding
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Tom Jones

Author: Henry Fielding

Narrator: Bill Homewood

Unabridged: 37 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Naxos

Published: 04/29/2013

Categories: Fiction, Classic


Synopsis

Our hero Tom, a friendly young rogue with a heart of gold, has fixed his heart on the delicious Sophia, daughter of a wealthy landowner. Losing hope, poor Tom finds solace in the beds of a host of beautiful women, at least one of them old enough to be his mother. He leaves a trail of broken hearts behind him, only to discover... but that would spoil the story - you must listen and see! This great English classic is brought to life by Bill Homewood’s lively reading.

About Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding (1707-1754) started his career as a playwright until his outspoken satirical plays so annoyed Walpole's Government that a new Licensing Act was introduced to drive him from the stage. He turned to writing various 'comic epics in prose', including Shamela and Tom Jones. A master innovator, he is credited with creating the first modern novels in English. He was also a magistrate and co-founder of the Bow Street Runners, often dubbed as London's first professional police force.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit on July 07, 2023

Somewhere in the beginning Henry Fielding sets the rule of writing great fiction… …the Excellence of the mental Entertainment consists less in the Subject, than in the Author’s Skill in well dressing it up. And in full accordance with this immutable principle The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling is a......more

Goodreads review by J.G. Keely on March 13, 2008

Who reads this and laughs not at all may be forgiven only as a simpleton, and does not comprehend. Who reads this and laughs but a little is too dour and prideful to be of much use, and only laughs when he cannot help it. Who reads this and laughs a score is the wretched false-wit, and only laughs whe......more

Goodreads review by Michael on August 24, 2017

Here's another wonderful 18th century novel that blows up the easy breezy Shibboleth of "show, don't tell." Here the narrator tells and tells, and I laughed and laughed, and the plot moved like a fine engine through adventure after misadventure.......more

Goodreads review by Roy on June 07, 2016

Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, ‘he was a blockhead;’ and upon my expressing astonishment at so strange an assertion, he said ‘What I mean by his being a blockhead is that he was a barren rascal.’ BOSWELL. ‘Will you not allow, Sir, that he draws very natural pictures of human life?’......more