A substantial amount of the energy which Henry Fielding put into his writing was invested in political journalism and pamphleteering. Indeed, next to his prose fiction and his plays, his political journalism looms largest, and reveals significant aspects of Fielding the man.

This volume contains three pamphlets - the Serious Address, the History of the Present Rebellion, and the Dialogue between the Devil, the Pope, and the Pretender - and one journal, the True Patriot of 1745-6. Coming from what may be called the second period of Fielding's intensive political journalism, they are all...

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Henry Fielding (1707-1754) war ein berühmter englischer Romanautor, Satiriker, Dramatiker, Journalist und Jurist in der Zeit der Aufklärung. Als Romanautor trat Fielding zuerst 1741 mit Shamela, einer Parodie auf Samuel Richardsons "Pamela", in Erscheinung. Mit The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams, einer weiteren Parodie auf den Bestseller seines Rivalen Richardson, begründete Fielding den humorvoll-realistischen Roman: Sein Programm, Komik und Realismus zu verbinden und mit diesen Mitteln ein erzählerisches Bild der Gesellschaft zu zeichnen,...

Henry Fielding (1707-1754) war ein berühmter englischer Romanautor, Satiriker, Dramatiker, Journalist und Jurist in der Zeit der Aufklärung. Als Romanautor trat Fielding zuerst 1741 mit Shamela, einer Parodie auf Samuel Richardsons "Pamela", in Erscheinung. Mit The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams, einer weiteren Parodie auf den Bestseller seines Rivalen Richardson, begründete Fielding den humorvoll-realistischen Roman: Sein Programm, Komik und Realismus zu verbinden und mit diesen Mitteln ein erzählerisches Bild der Gesellschaft zu zeichnen,...

This book has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Tom Jones or, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. It is both a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel. It was first published on 28 February 1749 in London, and is among the earliest English prose works to be classified as a novel. It is the earliest novel mentioned by W. Somerset Maugham in his 1948 book Great Novelists and Their Novels among the ten best novels of the world. The novel is highly organized, despite its...

"The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling," also known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. It was first published in 1749 in London and is among the earliest English works classified as a novel. It is a Bildungsroman and an adventurous story covering the eighteen years of the life of Tom Jones, a foundling that was fostered by a kind and wealthy squire. Tom grows up an adventurous and somewhat lustful young man with an open and kind heart. However, he always gets into trouble, finally causing Tom's benefactor and a beloved lady to abandon him....

Joseph Andrews, or The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams, tells of a good-natured footman's adventures on the road home from London with his friend and mentor, the absent-minded parson Abraham Adams. As a young man, Joseph is employed by a young widow Lady Bobby as her footman. Joseph escorts Lady Bobby to London where he refuses her attempts at seduction because of his love for poor Fanny Goodwill, so Lady Bobby dismisses him from both his job and his lodgings. Joseph sets out from London to go back home and to his beloved Fanny, but gets mugged....

Tom Jones or, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. It is both a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel. It was first published on 28 February 1749 in London, and is among the earliest English prose works to be classified as a novel. It is the earliest novel mentioned by W. Somerset Maugham in his 1948 book Great Novelists and Their Novels among the ten best novels of the world. The novel is highly organized, despite its length. Samuel Taylor Coleridge argued that it has one of the "three most perfect plots ever planned." Tom...