Tom Jones (A Modern Library Giant)
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 0679601260 / Publisher: Modern Library, November 1994
Chronicles the romantic adventures of a reckless, high-spirited yet personable young man who sets out in search of his true identity and his fortune
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(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)For Coleridge the plot of Tom Jones was, along with that of Oedipus The King, the most perfect ever constructed. Fielding used all his art and all the craft he had amassed as a successful playwright for the eighteenth-century London stage to tell this hugely entertaining story of a foundling and how he arrives, through sexual misadventures and elaborate disasters, to claim his legitimacy, his fortune, and his true love.
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