Tom Jones
(Henry Fielding)
Henry Fielding?s Tom JonesIf you long for classic literature contrasting modern literature?s emphasis on the bawdy, this is not the book for you. The book does contain references to those activities perpetuating the human race. However, the book does have elegant description, uproarious high spirits, and has been described as "epic, comic, tragic" and still true to life. The story focuses on Tom, born in the mid-1700s of uncertain parentage, but of definite pure heart and warm blood. In life, he meets virtue, vice and various people richly described, suffers funny misfortune finds fame and fortune.
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