10% off all books and free delivery over £40
Buy from our bookstore and 25% of the cover price will be given to a school of your choice to buy more books. *15% of eBooks.

Tom Jones

View All Editions

£3.99 £3.59

In Stock. Same day dispatch on orders before 3pm.

Add To Wishlist
Write A Review

About

Tom Jones Synopsis

Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. Tom Jones is widely regarded as one of the first and most influential English novels. It is certainly the funniest. Tom Jones, the hero of the book, is introduced to the reader as the ward of a liberal Somerset squire. Tom is a generous but slightly wild and feckless country boy with a weakness for young women. Misfortune, followed by many spirited adventures as he travels to London to seek his fortune, teach him a sort of wisdom to go with his essential good-heartedness. This ‘comic, epic poem in prose’ will make the modern reader laugh as much as it did his forbears. Its biting satire finds an echo in today’s society, for as Doris Lessing recently remarked ‘This country becomes every day more like the eighteenth century, full of thieves and adventurers, rogues and a robust, unhypocritical savagery side-by-side with people lecturing others on morality’.

About This Edition

ISBN: 9781853260216
Publication date: 5th May 1992
Author: Henry Fielding, Doreen (Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury) Roberts
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 768 pages
Series: Wordsworth Classics
Genres: Classics