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Tom, a foundling, is discovered one evening by the benevolent Squire Allworthy and his sister Bridget and brought up as a son in their household; when his sexual escapades and general misbehavior lead them to banish him, he sets out in search of both his fortune and his true identity. Amorous, high-spirited, and filled with what Fielding called the glorious lust of doing good, but with a tendency toward dissolution, Tom Jones is one of the first characters in English fiction whose human virtues and vices are realistically depicted. This edition is set from the text of the Wesleyan Edition of the Works of Henry Fielding.

This satirical Austen novel points to the hypocrisy of a country that calls itself free--England--yet denies women full moral stature. Fanny Price, unlike any of Austen's other heroines, is from a poor family--though she was raised by her rich uncle and aunt in the grand country house of the title, where only her cousin Edmund (with whom she falls in love) helps her with the difficulties she suffers from the rest of the family, caused partly by her own fearfulness and timidity. When the sophisticated Crawfords (Henry and Mary), visit the Mansfield neighborhood, the moral sense of each ...

The classic story of a young man living by his wits and relying upon his fortunes in 18th-century England, by one of the greatest novelists in the language. Tom Jones, a foundling who is taken in and raised by the kindly Squire Allworthy, is a guileless boy whose inherent decency is sometimes obscured by his high-spirited bawdiness and candor. Unjustly banished from the Allworthy house, Tom takes to the road and, after a series of richly comic, often harrowing adventures, learns the value of prudence, is reunited with Allworthy, and discovers his true identity.

A vivid, romantic comedy, Tom Jones is also a clever social satire. This well-loved classic has recently been made into a wonderfully warm and funny television serial.

The eponymous hero is first introduced as a baby, discovered in the astonished Mr Allworthy's bed. A charitable gentleman, he adopts Tom, feeling an instant affection for the boy whom the rest of his family condemn as 'born to be hanged'. This panoramic comic novel relates Tom's picaresque adventures, the coincidences and frustrations encountered along the way, and his devotion to the beautiful, apparently unattainable heroine, Sophia Western. Fielding's sharp, sardonic touch has made Tom Jones a much-loved classic.

Shamela es una obra clave dentro de la literatura inglesa, dado que impulsó el inicio como novelista de uno de los considerados pioneros de la novela inglesa, Henry Fielding. Esta parodia breve y mordaz, de la cual se propone al Servicio de Publicaciones de la UMA su primera traduccion en lengua española, sirve a Fielding para ajustar cuentas con diversos adversarios literarios y politicos al mismo tiempo que ataca con fiereza a diversos ambitos de la sociedad inglesa de principios del siglo XVIII, entre ellos la religion y la politica. El que acabaria siendo autor de Joseph Andrews, novela que conto con una gran influencia cervantina, aprovecha el enorme exito y repercusion de Pamela, la primera novela del editor y autor ingles Samuel Richardson, para trazar una caricatura de la historia que narro el triunfo de la virtud de una joven criada frente a los intentos de abuso por parte de su señor; dicha caricatura le da la vuelta a la version de Richardson, hace mofa de su estilo literario y el concepto de virtud empleado en Pamela denunciando la hipocresia, la inmoralidad y la corrupcion de diversos agentes de la sociedad.

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