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TOM JONES
₨ 360This revised Norton Critical Edition is based upon the fourth edition of “Tom Jones”, the last to be published during Fielding’s lifetime. Contemporary reactions to the novel’s publication and 12 critical essays are included.
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JONATHAN WILD THE GREAT
₨ 1,221A hilarious black comedy of manners and morals, based on the career and crimes of a real-life eighteenth-century gangland criminal, Jonathan Wild the Great is one of the finest satires in the English language.
Jonathan Wild is truly ‘great’: spurning the callow and spiritless ways of ‘lower’ men, he treads his own path to fame and glory – by way of theft, fraud and betrayal. Against a backdrop of such colourful characters as Miss Molly Straddle, the cardsharp Count La Ruse, and the ‘base’ and ‘weak’ Mr Thomas Heartfree, Wild’s passage from cradle to gallows is told with a humour that belies the subtlety of the novel’s ironic themes, and the vigour and sparkle characteristic of Fielding’s best works.
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THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES
₨ 728Tom Jones, published in 1749, became one of the most influential classics of fiction, ha Somerset lives Mr Allworthy, a widower, with Sister Bridget, a testy spinster. One evening a baby boy is found on his bed. Generous Mr Allworthy adopts the boy and names him Tom Jones, in the belief that he is the illegitimate child of schoolmaster Partridge and Jenny Jones. Partridge is forced out of the village.
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JOSEPH ANDREWS
₨ 995Joseph Andrews refuses Lady Booby’s advances, she discharges him, and Joseph in the company of his old tutor, Parson Adams (one of the great comic figures of literature) sets out from London to visit his sweetheart, Fanny. Along the way, the two travelers meet with a series of adventures some hilarious, some heartstopping in which through their own innocence and honesty they expose the hypocrisy and affectation of others. “Joseph Andrews” started out as a parody of Richardson’s “Pamela, ” but soon left that purpose behind and now is regarded as the first English realistic novel.”
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