FIELDING HENRY

Η ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΤΟΜ ΤΖΟΟΥΝΣ, ΕΝΟΣ ΕΚΘΕΤΟΥ
"Μένω εμβρόντητος ακούγοντάς σας ν' αναφέρεστε σ' ένα τόσο διεστραμμένο βιβλίο. Λυπάμαι που ομολογείτε ότι το διαβάσατε - καμία αξιοπρεπής κυρία δε θα 'πρεπε να παραδέχεται κάτι τέτοιο. Είναι το πιο διεφθαρμένο έργο που ξέρω". Μ' αυτά τα λόγια εκφράζει ο Σάμιουελ Τζόνσον στη Χάνα Μορ την άποψή του για τον "Τομ Τζόουνς", έργο που για δύο περίπου αιώνες ξεσήκωσε αναρίθμητα και ποικίλα σχόλια, φτάνοντας μάλιστα και στο σημείο να θεωρηθεί, από αρκετούς, υπεύθυνο για τους σεισμούς τον Λονδίνου το 1749, σημάδι της οργής του Κυρίου απέναντι στον ...
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Η ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΤΟΜ ΤΖΟΟΥΝΣ, ΕΝΟΣ ΕΚΘΕΤΟΥ
Χιουμοριστικό, ερωτικό, ρηξικέλευθο και διορατικό, το μνημειώδες μυθιστόρημα του Fielding, μολονότι γραμμένο πριν από σχεδόν 250 χρόνια, μιλά με την ίδια άνεση και για το χθες και για το σήμερα. Οι περιπέτειες του Τομ και της Σοφίας δεν προσφέρουν απλώς ένα απολαυστικό ταξίδι, αλλά και μία σπάνια αναγνωστική εμπειρία. (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΣΤΟ ΟΠΙΣΘΟΦΥΛΛΟ ΤΟΥ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΥ)...
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(P/B) TOM JONES
Fielding's comic masterpiece of 1749 was immediately attacked as `A motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery'. Indeed, his populous novel overflows with a marvellous assortment of prudes, whores, libertines, bumpkins, misanthropes, hypocrites, scoundrels, virgins, and all too fallible humanitarians. At the centre of one of the most ingenious plots in English fiction stands a hero whose actions were, in 1749, as shocking as they are funny today. Expelled from Mr Allworthy's country estate for his wild temper and sexual conque...
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(P/B) THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES
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 Lond...
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(P/B) JOSEPH ANDREWS AND SHAMELA
Both Joseph Andrews (1742) and Shamela (1741) were prompted by the success of Richardson's Pamela (1740), of which Shamela is a splendidly bawdy parody. But in Shamela Fielding also demonstrates his concern for the corruption of contemporary society, politics, religion, morality, and taste. The same themes - together with a presentation of love as charity, as friendship, and in its sexual taste - are present in Joseph Andrews, Fielding's first novel. It is a work of considerable literary sophistication and satirical verve, but its appeal l...
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(P/B) 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 a...
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(P/B) JONATHAN WILD
The real-life Jonathan Wild, gangland godfather and self-styled 'Thieftaker General', controlled much of the London underworld until he was executed for his crimes in 1725. Even during his lifetime his achievements attracted attention; after his death balladeers sang of his exploits, and satirists made connections between his success and the triumph of corruption in high places. Henry Fielding built on these narratives to produce one of the greatest sustained satires in the English language. Published in 1743, at a time when the modern nov...
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(P/B) JONATHAN WILD THE GREAT
Based on the career and crimes of a real-life eighteenth-century gangland criminal, Jonathan Wild the Great is a black comedy of manners and morals....
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(P/B) AMELIA
With its combination of satire and sentiment, its focus on the seedy side of London life, and its unexpected shifts in tone, Amelia has intrigued and disturbed readers since its first publication. Eagerly awaited by Henry Fielding's eighteenth-century readers of Tom Jones, the novel perplexed many of them. Amelia counters the traditional courtship plot of eighteenth-century novels with its convincing portrayal of a marriage between an errant husband and his wife, and is ahead of its time in its depiction of the alienation of modern city li...
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(H/B) 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 o...
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