num_pages: 734
description: An alternate cover for this isbn can be found here.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'.
language: English
title: Tom Jones
titlecomplete: Tom Jones (Wordsworth Classics)
characters: Narrator, Lord Fellamar, Mr. Allworthy, Partridge, Mr. Dowling, Lady Bellaston, Squire Western, Nancy Miller, Molly Seagrim, Master Blifil, Sophia Western, Harriet Fitzpatrick, Bridget Allworthy, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Black George, Mrs. Miller, Thwackum, Tom Jones, Square, Jenny Jones
genres: Historical Fiction, Novels, 18th Century, Literature, English Literature, Classics, British Literature, Romance, Fiction, Humor
ratings_count: 33103
places: England, London, England, Somerset, England
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Mikael Agricola -palkinto
publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd