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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. It is a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel . It was first published on 28 February 1749 in London and is among the earliest English works to be classified as a novel. [ 1 ]
Tom Jones (writer) (1928–2023), American librettist and lyricist; The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, a novel by Henry Fielding published in 1749, often known simply as Tom Jones. Tom Jones, a 1765 opera by Philidor based on Fielding's novel; Tom Jones (Edward German), a 1907 British comic opera by Edward German based on Fielding's novel
Here Fred resembles Henry Fielding's character Tom Jones, both being moulded into a good husband by the love they give to and receive from a woman. [ 31 ] Dorothea is a St Teresa, born in the wrong century, in provincial Middlemarch, who mistakes in her idealistic ardor, "a poor dry mummified pedant... as a sort of angel of vocation". [ 32 ]
Henry Fielding (22 April 1707 – 8 October 1754) was an English writer and magistrate known for the use of humour and satire in his works. [1] His 1749 comic novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling was a seminal work in the genre.
Tom Jones, the lyricist, director and writer of “The Fantasticks,” the longest-running musical in history, has died. Jones died Friday at his home in Sharon, Connecticut, according to Dan ...
Tom Jones, who wrote the book and lyrics for the longest-running musical “The Fantasticks,” died Friday at his home in Sharon, Conn. He was 95. Jones’ son Michael told The New York Times the ...
The Fantasticks is a 1960 musical with music by Harvey Schmidt and book and lyrics by Tom Jones.It tells an allegorical story, loosely based on the 1894 play The Romancers (Les Romanesques) by Edmond Rostand, concerning two neighboring fathers who trick their children, Luisa and Matt, into falling in love by pretending to feud.
Tom Jones -- the lyricist, director and writer of the longest-running musical of all time, The Fantasticks -- has died. He was 95. Jones died Friday at his home in Sharon, Connecticut. His son ...