Tom Jones

Resource Information

The work Tom Jones represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Tom Jones

Statement of responsibility

Henry Fielding ; edited by John Bender and Simon Stern ; with an introduction by John Bender

Creator

• Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754

Contributor

• Bender, John B
• Stern, Simon

Subject

• Bildungsromans
• England
• England -- Fiction
• England -- London
• Fiction
• Foundlings
• Foundlings -- Fiction
• Humorous fiction
• Identity (Psychology)
• Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction
• London (England) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
• Manners and customs
• Picaresque literature
• Young men
• Young men -- Fiction

Genre

• Humorous fiction
• Picaresque literature
• Bildungsromans
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Follows the fortunes of Tom, a foundling brought up by the kindly squire Allworthy. Despite a good and generous heart, Tom's naive inability to resist a pretty face leads to his downfall and he is banished from the Squire's house. But when the girl he really loves, Sophia, runs away to escape from her arranged marriage to his rival, the despicable Blifil, Tom pursues her to London, embarking on a series of riotous and frequently amorous adventures involving a wonderfully rich gallery of characters. Not so much a rake's progress as the exploits of an innocent abroad, it is a splendidly funny and often touching odyssey in which good ultimately triumphs over the corruption of human spirit

Member of

• Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
• History of Tom Jones

Cataloging source

UKM

Dewey number

823/.5

Illustrations

maps

Index

no index present

LC call number

PR3454

LC item number

.H5 2008

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Oxford world's classics