The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Henry Fielding, the author of "The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling" (1749), owned a complete set of Lucian's writings in nine volumes. He deliberately imitated Lucian in his "Journey from This World and into the Next" and, in "The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, the Great" (1743), he describes Lucian as "almost... like the true father of humour" and lists him alongside Miguel de Cervantes and Jonathan Swift as a true master of satire. In "The Convent Garden Journal", Fielding directly states in regard to Lucian that he had modeled his style "upon that very author". Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, François Fénelon, Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, and Voltaire all wrote adaptations of Lucian's "Dialogues of the Dead". According to Turner, Voltaire's "Candide" (1759) displays the characteristically Lucianic theme of "refuting philosophical theory by reality". Voltaire also wrote "The Conversation between Lucian, Erasmus and Rabelais in the Elysian Fields", a dialogue in which he treats Lucian as "one of his masters in the strategy of intellectual revolution".