The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
The digression was also used for non-satiric purposes in fiction. In Henry Fielding's "The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling", the author has numerous asides and digressive statements that are a side-fiction, and this sort of digression within chapters shows up later in the work of Charles Dickens, Machado de Assis, William Makepeace Thackeray, Herman Melville, Victor Hugo and others. The novels of Leo Tolstoy, J.D. Salinger, Marcel Proust, Henry Miller, Milan Kundera and Robert Musil are also full of digressions.