Henry Fielding
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English
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The Don Quixote of 18th century England. 'Adams dealt him so sound a compliment over his face with his fist, that the blood immediately gushed out of his nose in a stream. The Host being unwilling to be outdone in courtesy, especially by a person of Adams's figure, returned the favour with so much gratitude, that the parson's nostrils likewise began to look a little redder than usual.' Inspired by the masterpiece Don Quixote de la Mancha, Henry Fielding,...
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English
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Description
Joseph Andrews, fired by his employer, Lady Booby, for refusing her advances, sets out from London to visit his sweetheart, Fanny, in the company of his friend, Parson Abraham Adams. Fate in the form of a mugging, a kidnapping, and a revelation about parentage seems to be against them, but the odyssey ends happily with a wedding
Author
Series
Modern Library college editions volume T16
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
[1950]
Physical Desc
xxxix, 422 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
World's classics volume 382
Publisher
H. Milford, Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[1932]
Physical Desc
3 p. ℓ., [3]-289, [1] p. 16 cm.
Language
English
6) Tom Jones
Series
Criterion collection volume 910
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (128 min.; 121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (12 pages : color illustrations, 18 cm)
Language
English
Description
Follows the bawdy activities of Tom Jones, a foundling of mysterious origin, adopted by a squire in eighteenth-century England.
8) Tom Jones
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Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (200 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Abandoned as a baby, rescued and adopted by a country gentleman, Tom Jones grows up kind, handsome, free-spirited, and very popular with the ladies. But he cannot escape his lowly birth. When he falls in love with the bright, beautiful heiress Sophia Western, and she falls in love with him, their families unite against the match. They both end up in London, facing the wiles and whims of Sophia's aunt, the beguiling but dangerous Lady Bellaston, who...
9) Tom Jones
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002], c1997
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows the rollicking adventures of Tom Jones as he romps across 18th century England, from bedrooms to rural inns to London's dangerous streets. Cast out from his home and forbidden his true love, Tom must overcome the charms of an older seductress and the sinister plot of a nefarious rival to win his lover's heart.
Series
Harvard classics volume 39
Publisher
Collier
Pub. Date
©1938
Edition
Registered ed.
Physical Desc
437 pages, [1] leaf of plates ; 21 cm.
Language
English
