Henry Fielding

A joyfully picaresque novel, Tom Jones is satirical and farcical in large doses, as well as confronting serious issues such as the importance of religion in 18th-century society....

The 18th Century Classics Collection steps into the vibrant and tumultuous world of 18th century Europe. With this captivating anthology of some of the most influential works of 1700s literature, we encounter biting satire, passionate romance, and political tumultuousness.

Shamela is a bawdy, spirited and hilarious response to Samuel Richardson's hugely popular 1740 novel, Pamela....

The real Jonathan Wild, born about 1682 and executed at Tyburn in 1725, was one of the most notorious criminals of his age....

Tom Jones is greatly admired not only for the meticulous craft with which it was written, but also for its humor....

Tom Jones is a splendid Hogarthian panorama of 18th-century English life and morals, encompassing both city and country....

Volume 2 continues our story by picking up with the flight of Sophia from her father, Squire Western, and continues the journey of Tom....

Tom Jones is widely regarded as one of the first and most influential English novels....

Tom Jones is a splendid Hogarthian panorama of 18th century English life and morals, encompassing both city and country, and comprising some of the greatest comic characters in British literature....

Penguin Classics presents Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones....

The ‘Voice of the Year’ competition introduced and sponsored by Naxos AudioBooks and The Times books pages....

Henry Fielding è considerato uno dei padri fondatori del romanzo realista inglese. Tale scopo sarà pienamente raggiunto da Fielding nel suo capolavoro, Tom Jones (1749), uno dei più grandi romanzi della letteratura inglese....

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by the English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding....

Tom Jones is widely regarded as Fielding's greatest novel, a wonderful, picaresque adventure that takes Tom, a foundling, on a hilarious and by turns scandalous journey....

A foundling of mysterious parentage, Tom Jones is brought up by the benevolent and wealthy Squire Allworthy as his own son....

This is Stephen Wyatt's adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic comic adventure....

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Henry Fielding's rollicking comic masterpiece....

Penguin Classics presents Henry Fielding’s Joseph Andrews....

I have heard of a dramatic writer who used to say, he would rather write a play than a prologue; in like manner, I think, I can with less pains...

There are a set of religious, or rather moral writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world...