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Henry Fields, Brent Larson, David M. Sarver, William R. Proffit

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Henry Fielding

"Joseph Andrews" is a novel by Henry Fielding, first published in 1742. The book is a humorous and satirical take on the popular literary genre of the time, the romance novel. The story follows the adventures of the titular character, Joseph Andrews, a young footman who is determined to remain faithful to his beloved Fanny despite the many temptations that come his way. Along the way, he encounters a variety of colorful characters, including the lecherous Lady Booby and the kind-hearted Pa...

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Henry Fielding

The Old Debauchees opens with a brisk, satirical clash between worldly appetite and religious austerity, as Isabel mocks Beatrice's wish to enter a nunnery and Beatrice defends devotion and self-denial. Into this comic battleground stride Old Laroon, a boastful relic of libertine excess, and his son Young Laroon, whose rivalry over Isabel exposes the absurdity of the father's cynical worldview. But the play's sharpest edge belongs to Father Martin, a priest who proves as manipulative as an...

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Henry Fielding

This is the story of a good-natured footman's adventures on the road home from London with his friend and mentor, the absent-minded parson Abraham Adams.The novel represents the coming together of the two competing aesthetics of eighteenth-century literature: the mock-heroic and neoclassical approach of Augustans such as Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift; and the popular, domestic prose fiction of novelists such as Daniel Defoe and Samuel Richardson.

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Henry Fielding

Brought to you by Penguin.Henry Fielding's picaresque tale of a young man's search for his place in the world, The History of Tom Jones is edited with notes and an introduction by Thomas Keymer and Alice Wakely in Penguin Classics.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 neighbouring squire - though ...

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Oxford World's Classics

Tom Jones is rightly regarded as Fielding's greatest work, and one of the first and most influential of English novels. Attacked at the time as `A motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery', it overflows with a marvellous assortment of prudes, whores, libertines, bumpkins, misanthropes, hypocrites, scoundrels, virgins, and all too fallible humanitarians. This carefully modernized edition is based on Fielding's emended fourth edition text and offers the most thorough notes, ma...

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Henry Fielding

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known just as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by the English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. The novel is both a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel. First published on 28 February 1749 in London, Tom Jones is among the earliest English prose works describable as a novel, and is the earliest novel mentioned by W. Somerset Maugham in his 1948 book "Great Novelists and Their Novels" among the ten best novels of the world. Totaling 346,747 wor...

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Henry Fielding

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Oxford World's Classics

'I beg as soon as you get Fielding's Joseph Andrews, I fear in Ridicule of your Pamela and of Virtue in the Notion of Don Quixote's Manner, you would send it to me by the very first Coach.' (George Cheyne in a letter to Samuel Richardson, February 1742) Both Joseph Andrews (1742) and Shamela (1741) were prompted by the success of Richardson's Pamela (1740), of which Shamela is a splendidly bawdy parody. But in Shamela Fielding ...

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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 neighbouring squire - though he sometimes succumbs to the charms of the local girls. But when his amorous escapades earn the disapproval of his benefactor, Tom is banished to make his own fortune. Sophia, meanwhile, is determined to avoid an arranged marriage to Allworthy's scheming nephew and escapes...

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Henry Field

First published in 2005. Informed by the author's extensive fieldwork in Iraq, this work is an invaluable resource for all those interested in the anthropology of Iraq. Providing the reader first with important background information about the geography and climate of Iraq, the author goes on to give a detailed account of its peoples, presenting information on their physical characteristics and health in clear prose as well as in numerous readable tables. The work is supplemented by append...

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Henry Field

This book is meant to challenge, is often controversial, even something of a whistleblower and, being radical, does not settle for the status quo as I speak out against these terrible times we live in. It is about dealing with life and death with all that that means in joy and heartache and the realities of such with both the physical and spiritual supernatural sides of life, something of how they interact in good versus evil, right and wrong also the intense and desperate warfare we are l...

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Henry Fielding

The classic work " hailed as one of the great comic novels of English literature and author Henry Fielding's masterpiece" (HistoryNet.com).Both a picaresque and Bildungsroman, The History of Tom Jones follows the life of its hero from his discovery as a foundling on the property of Squire Allworthy in England's West Country to his banishment from the estate and subsequent journey to London to escape an arranged marriage. Tom's many dallian...