Henry Fielding

Tom Jones by Henry Fielding is a comedic novel that follows the life and adventures of its foundling protagonist, Tom Jones, as he navigates through love...

Tom Jones is widely regarded as one of the first and most influential English novels....

Shamela is a bawdy, spirited and hilarious response to Samuel Richardson's hugely popular 1740 novel, Pamela....

The ‘Voice of the Year’ competition introduced and sponsored by Naxos AudioBooks and The Times books pages....

Volume 2 continues our story by picking up with the flight of Sophia from her father, Squire Western, and continues the journey of Tom....

A foundling of mysterious parentage, Tom Jones is brought up by the benevolent and wealthy Squire Allworthy as his own son. Tom falls in love with the beautiful and unattainable Sophia Western, a neighbor’s daughter, whose marriage has already been arranged. When Tom’s sexual misadventures...

Tom Jones is a splendid Hogarthian panorama of 18th century English life and morals, encompassing both city and country, and comprising some of the greatest comic characters in British literature....

Tom Jones is greatly admired not only for the meticulous craft with which it was written, but also for its humor....

Tom Jones is a splendid Hogarthian panorama of 18th-century English life and morals, encompassing both city and country....

The real Jonathan Wild, born about 1682 and executed at Tyburn in 1725, was one of the most notorious criminals of his age....

We are now, reader, arrived at the last stage of our long journey. As we have, therefore, travelled together through so many pages, let us behave...

When a comic writer hath made his principal characters as happy as he can, or when a tragic writer hath brought them to the highest pitch of human misery...

Among other good uses for which I have thought proper to institute these several introductory chapters, I have considered them as a kind of mark or stamp...

I have heard of a dramatic writer who used to say, he would rather write a play than a prologue; in like manner, I think, I can with less pains...

As several gentlemen in these times, by the wonderful force of genius only, without the least assistance of learning, perhaps, without being well...

There are a set of religious, or rather moral writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world...

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by the English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding....

Penguin Classics presents Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews, adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by the actor Sean Barrett. 'Kissing, Joseph, is but a prologue to a Play. Can I believe a young fellow of your Age and Complexion...

Penguin Classics presents Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by the actor Robert Lindsay. '"Sir, I am concerned at the Trouble I give you; nay indeed my Nakedness may well make me ashamed to look...

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Henry Fielding's rollicking comic masterpiece. Found one evening in the bed of the rich and benevolent Mr Allworthy, baby Tom grows up in the guardianship of the kindly squire. He develops into a good-hearted fellow who is nonetheless resented by...