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Tom Jones |
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Tom Jones picaresque novel of a young man in 18th-century England. [Br. Lit.: Haydn & Fuller, 745] See : Adventurousness How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| I have been Tom Jones (a child's Tom Jones, a harmless creature) for a week together. Tom Jones is virtually Henry Fielding in his youth and is thoroughly lifelike, but Squire Allworthy, intended as an example of benevolent perfection, is no less of a pale abstraction than Sir Charles Grandison. Though no more Old English than the works of Kipling, it had selected its reminiscences so adroitly that her criticism was lulled, and the guests whom it was nourishing for imperial purposes bore the outer semblance of Parson Adams or Tom Jones. |
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