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One of the cleverest and funniest novels ever written, Tom Jones is Henry Fielding's greatest achievement.

Tom Jones, born a foundling, grown into a gallant and irresistible hero, romps through the English countryside getting himself into all kinds of trouble through his good nature and eye for the ladies. Betrayed by jealous relatives, Tom is exiled from home and must undergo a variety of trials and adventures in his quest to be reunited with his one true love and redeem himself in the eyes of society. The plotting is complex, astonishing and perfect. It brims with good nature and generosity of spirit...it's full of jokes, suspense, cliffhangers, narrative reversals and pathos' -- Jonathan Coe * Time Out * I think the Oedipus Tyrannus, The Alchemist, and Tom Jones, the three most perfect plots ever planned. And how charming, how wholesome, Fielding always is! To take him up after Richardson, is like emerging from a sick room heated by stoves, into an open lawn, on a breezy day in May -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge An exquisite picture of human manners -- Edward Gibbon, author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire I am shocked to hear you quote from so vicious a book. I am sorry to hear you have read it: a confession which no modest lady should ever make -- Samuel Johnson talking about Tom Jones

The History of Tom Jones: and The Female Husband