The Genius of Henry Fielding with Selections from His Works
Contributors: Henry H. Harper (Introduction)
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: July 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780548013922
Subjects: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; General; Biography & Autobiography; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Biography/Autobiography
First sentence: WHILE most modem readers are more or less acquainted with the genius of Henry Fielding, there are some who perhaps imagine that style and invention in novel-writing have so much improved in the past hundred and sixty-odd years, since Fielding's death, that to read his works in this advanced age would be equivalent to going back and reviewing our school primers.