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Fielding Henry Tom Jones
Tom Jones is widely regarded as one of the first and most influential English novels. It is certainly the funniest. Tom Jones, the hero of the book, is introduced to the reader as the ward of a liberal Somerset squire. Tom is a generous but slightly wild and feckless country boy with a weakness for young women. Misfortune, followed by many spirited adventures as he travels to London to seek his fortune, teach him a sort of wisdom to go with his essential good-heartedness. This 'comic, epic poem in prose' will make the modern reader laugh as much as it did his forbears. Its biting satire finds an echo in today's society, for as Doris Lessing recently remarked 'This country becomes every day more like the eighteenth century, full of thieves and adventurers, rogues and a robust, unhypocritical savagery side-by-side with people lecturing others on morality'.
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Fielding Henry Tom Jones
"Tom Jones" is a great celebration of life, the first novel of its kind and still unrivalled as a classic of comic inventiveness and sheer exuberance. First published in 1749, Henry Fielding's tale of the foundling boy adopted by a rich and kindly benefactor only to be cast out on the verge of manhood is an epic saga that draws closely on the author's own rash and rackety life to pit 'goodness and innocence' against the greed and hypocrisy prevalent at all levels of society in his time. Described by Edward Gibbon as "that exquisite picture of human manners", Tom Jones is an enduring cause for optimism that our species is, after all, capable of redemption.
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Fielding Henry Tom Jones
Abandoned as a baby, Tom Jones is adopted by a wealthy and compassionate widower, Squire Allworthy. Tom's childhood affection for Sophia Weston, a local landowner's daughter, slowly deepens into love. But Sophia is meant to marry the malevolent Blifil, who plots against Tom and gets him banished. The young lovers' paths are sure to cross however, as Tom sets off on a journey of adventure and mishap throughout England while Sophia tries to escape her destiny… Retold by Janet McAlpin.
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Fielding Henry Tom Jones
For Coleridge the plot of Tom Jones was, along with that of Oedipus the King, the most perfect ever constructed. Fielding used all his art and all the craft he had amassed as a successful playwright for the eighteenth-century London stage to tell this hugely entertaining story of a foundling and how he arrives, through sexual misadventures and elaborate disasters, to claim his legitimacy, his fortune and his true love.
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Fielding H. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 1 = История Тома Джонса 1
Henry Fielding (1707 — 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich, earthy humour and satirical prowess. "The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling" is his popular comic novel. It tells the story of Tom Jones, a gallant and irresistible young man. After being betrayed by jealous relatives, Tom is exiled from home and must undergo a variety of trials in his quest to be reunited with his one true love. Filled with mischief and adventure, this book is one of the most clever and witty novels ever written.
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Fielding Henry The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. Part 1
Henry Fielding (1707-1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich, earthy humour and satirical prowess. "The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling" is his popular comic novel. It tells the story of Tom Jones, a gallant and irresistible young man. After being betrayed by jealous relatives, Tom is exiled from home and must undergo a variety of trials in his quest to be reunited with his one true love. Filled with mischief and adventure, this book is one of the most clever and witty novels ever written.
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Fielding H. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 1 = История Тома Джонса 1
Henry Fielding (1707 — 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich, earthy humour and satirical prowess. "The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling" is his popular comic novel. It tells the story of Tom Jones, a gallant and irresistible young man. After being betrayed by jealous relatives, Tom is exiled from home and must undergo a variety of trials in his quest to be reunited with his one true love. Filled with mischief and adventure, this book is one of the most clever and witty novels ever written.
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Филдинг Хелен The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling I / История Тома Джонса I
Henry Fielding (1707-1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich, earthy humour and satirical prowess. "The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling" is his popular comic novel. It tells the story of Tom Jones, a gallant and irresistible young man. After being betrayed by jealous relatives, Tom is exiled from home and must undergo a variety of trials in his quest to be reunited with his one true love. Filled with mischief and adventure, this book is one of the most clever and witty novels ever written.
938 Руб.
Fielding H. Bridget Jones s Diary (мягк). Fielding H. (Логосфера)
A dazzling urban satire of modern human relations? An ironic, tragic insight into the demise of the nuclear family? Or the confused ramblings of a pissed thirty-something? ... .
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Fielding H. Bridget Jones s Diary (мягк). Fielding H. (Логосфера)
A dazzling urban satire of modern human relations? An ironic, tragic insight into the demise of the nuclear family? Or the confused ramblings of a pissed thirty-something? ... .
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Fielding Henry The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Henry Fielding's picaresque tale of a young man's search for his place in the world, The History of Tom Jones is edited with notes and an introduction by Thomas Keymer and Alice Wakely in Penguin Classics. A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighbouring squire - though he sometimes succumbs to the charms of the local girls. But when his amorous escapades earn the disapproval of his benefactor, Tom is banished to make his own fortune. Sophia, meanwhile, is determined to avoid an arranged marriage to Allworthy's scheming nephew and escapes from her rambunctious father to follow Tom to London. A vivid Hogarthian panorama of eighteenth century life, spiced with danger and intrigue, bawdy exuberance and good-natured authorial interjections, Tom Jones is one of the greatest and most ambitious comic novels in English literature. In his introduction Thomas Keymer discusses narrative techniques and themes, the context of eighteenth century fiction and satire, and the historical and political background of the Jacobite rebellion. This volume also includes a chronology, further reading, notes, a glossary and an appendix on Fielding's revisions. Henry Fielding (1707-1754) born at Sharpham Park, in Somerset, was a dramatist, novelist, political agitator and founder of London's first police force, the 'Bow Street Runners'. As a playwright he was a thorn in the side of Sir Robert Walpole's Whig government, who effectively legislated his retirement from the theatre with the Licensing Act of 1737. Undeterred, Fielding launched his career as a novelist in 1740 with Shamela (a parody of Samuel Richardson's Pamela), followed by Joseph Andrews (1741), an anticipation of his masterpiece, the comic novel Tom Jones (1749).
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Fielding Henry The History of Tom Jones
Генри Филдинг - английский писатель и драматург XVIII века, известный своим житейским юмором и сатирическим мастерством, один из основоположников реалистического романа. "История Тома Джонса, найдёныша" - самое известное произведение автора, в котором блестяще преподнесена история судьбы мальчика-подкидыша в дом состоятельного сквайра. Главный герой представляет собой редчайшее сочетание острого, ироничного ума и человеколюбия. Перед читателем разыгрывается прекрасный театр нравов, раскрывается настоящая энциклопедия жизни... Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!
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Fielding H. Bridget Jones s The Edge of Reason (мягк). Fielding H. (Логосфера)
The Wilderness Years are over. But not for long. At the end of Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget hiccuped off into the sunset with man-of-her-dreams Mark Darcy. Now, in The Edge of Reason, she discovers what it is like when you have the man of your...
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Fielding H. Bridget Jones s The Edge of Reason (мягк). Fielding H. (Логосфера)
The Wilderness Years are over. But not for long. At the end of Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget hiccuped off into the sunset with man-of-her-dreams Mark Darcy. Now, in The Edge of Reason, she discovers what it is like when you have the man of your...
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