Tom JonesPenguin Publishing Group, 1963 - 864 páginas Henry Fielding's Tom Jones is both one of the great comic masterpieces of English literature and a major force in the development of the novel form. By 1749, the year Tom Jones appeared, the novel was only beginning to be recognized as a potentially literary form. Samuel Richardson's novel Clarissa had appeared only the year before, and for the most part in intellectual circles prose fiction was not considered a worthy pursuit. Despite the publication by Jonathan Swift, a member of the literary elite surrounding Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, of Gulliver's Travels in 1726, the sanctioned genres of the first half of the eighteenth century were verse and drama. The novels of Daniel Defoe, seen by many as purely adventure tales, were not regarded as worthy of serious consideration. They were, however, instrumental in the development of a suitable reading public, without which Fielding probably would not have attempted any form of sustained prose fiction. |
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... la'ship can lament yourself so for nothing . To be sure , I am but a servant ; but to be sure , I have been always faithful to your ladyship , and to be sure , I would serve your la'ship with my life . " " My dear Honour , " says Sophia ...
... la'ship can lament yourself so for nothing . To be sure , I am but a servant ; but to be sure , I have been always faithful to your ladyship , and to be sure , I would serve your la'ship with my life . " " My dear Honour , " says Sophia ...
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... la'ship hath such a violent aversion and hates the young gentleman so very bad that you can't bear to think of going into bed to him ; for to be sure , there may be such antipathies in nature , and one had lieverer touch a toad than the ...
... la'ship hath such a violent aversion and hates the young gentleman so very bad that you can't bear to think of going into bed to him ; for to be sure , there may be such antipathies in nature , and one had lieverer touch a toad than the ...
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... la'ship think of making your escape ? Where will you get any horses or conveyance ? For as for your own horse , as all the servants know a little how matters stand between my master and your la'ship , Robin will be hanged before he will ...
... la'ship think of making your escape ? Where will you get any horses or conveyance ? For as for your own horse , as all the servants know a little how matters stand between my master and your la'ship , Robin will be hanged before he will ...
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Dedication | 27 |
The readers neck brought into danger by | 34 |
Containing such grave matter that the reader | 42 |
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