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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.
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 ]
Pages in category "Novels by Henry Fielding" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Amelia (novel)
Title page of Amelia Amelia is a sentimental novel written by Henry Fielding and published in December 1751. It was the fourth and final novel written by Fielding, and it was printed in only one edition while the author was alive, although 5,000 copies were published of the first edition. Amelia follows the life of Amelia and Captain William Booth after they are married. It contains many ...
The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams, was the first full-length novel by the English author Henry Fielding to be published and among the early novels in the English language. Appearing in 1742 and defined by Fielding as a "comic epic poem in prose", it tells of a good-natured footman's adventures ...
The novel is a sustained parody of, and direct response to, the stylistic failings and moral hypocrisy that Fielding saw in Richardson's Pamela. Reading Shamela amounts to re-reading Pamela through a deforming magnifying glass; Richardson's text is rewritten in a way that reveals its hidden implications, to subvert and desecrate it. [3] [4]
Fielding wrote four novels about the character (including Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason and Bridget Jones’s Baby), and the movie adaptations have taken in more than $800 million at the box ...
The Life and Death of the Late Jonathan Wild, the Great is a satiric novel by Henry Fielding.It was published in 1743 in Fielding's Miscellanies, third volume.It is a satiric account of the life of London underworld boss Jonathan Wild (1682–1725).
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