Tom Jones

by Henry Fielding

Overview

Tom Jones, die Geschichte des Findlings, ist der erste in einer langen Reihe großartiger englischer Romane, in denen die Lebensgeschichte von jungen Menschen bis zur Reife geschildert wird. Doch auf dem Wegdahin muss der Held allerhand Schwierigkeiten meistern. Das Buch überzeugte auch deutsche Aufklärer wie Lichtenberg, es inspirierte außerdem Charles Dickens und machte dessen Romanwerk erst möglich. Tom Jones zählt nach Ansicht bedeutender Literaturhistoriker zu den besten Romanen aller Zeiten.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783960552529
Publisher:	Ideenbrücke Verlag
Publication date:	03/15/2016
Sold by:	Libreka GmbH
Format:	eBook
Pages:	519
File size:	2 MB
Language:	German

About the Author

Dubbed "the father of the English novel" by Sir Walter Scott, Henry Fielding (1707–54) was educated at Eton and worked as a barrister, although writing was his true vocation. In 1741 he published Shamela, a parody of Samuel Richardson's sentimental and moralistic Pamela, followed a year later by Joseph Andrews. In 1749 he produced Tom Jones, his comic masterpiece and an incomparably vivid portrait of English society during the mid-18th century.

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What People are Saying About This

George Sherburn

Not the serious moral intention of the author, nor even the superb fusion of all elements, can fully account for the pleasure intelligent readers have found for two hundred years in reading Tom Jones. One must recognize as a supreme aid to the success of the book the fact that it is composed with confident directness and precision, and especially that it is written in healthy high spirits—that Fielding keenly enjoyed writing it.

Edward Gibbon

The successors of Charles the Fifth may disdain their brethren of England; but the romance of Tom Jones, that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of the house of Austria.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Upon my word, I think Tom Jones is one of the most perfect plots ever planned.

Editorial Reviews

Two hundred years have not dimmed Fielding’s realism. His humor is closer to our own than that of any writer before the present century.”—Kingsley Amis

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