The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling: A Foundling's Road to London
Henry Fielding
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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A foundling is raised by a country squire, thrown out on a false charge, and walks to London through inns, highwaymen and a rebellion, with the girl he wants engaged to someone else. Fielding was a magistrate who founded London's first police force, and the book is arranged like a case: eighteen books, each opening with an essay to the reader. It was called immoral for a century because the hero is not chaste. One hundred plates of eighteenth-century painting, from Hogarth to Stubbs, carry the road, the inns and the country houses of Fielding's England alongside the text.
A foundling is raised by a country squire, thrown out on a false charge, and walks to London through inns, highwaymen and a rebellion, with the girl he wants engaged to someone else. Fielding was a magistrate who founded London's first police force, and the book is arranged like a case: eighteen ...
About the author
Henry Fielding (1707–1754) wrote for the London stage until his satires provoked the licensing act that closed it to him, read for the bar, and became the magistrate who founded the Bow Street Runners — the first English police. Between sessions he wrote the novels that taught the form how to be comic and moral at once.
Henry Fielding (1707–1754) wrote for the London stage until his satires provoked the licensing act that closed it to him, read for the bar, and became the magistrate who founded the Bow Street Runners — the first English police. Between sessions he wrote the novels that taught the form how to be ...
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