Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding (1707-1754) started his career as a playwright until his outspoken satirical plays so annoyed Walpole’s government that a new Licensing Act was introduced to drive him from the stage. He turned to writing various ‘comic epics in prose’, including Joseph Andrews and Shamela. A master innovator, he is credited with creating the first modern novels in English. He was also a magistrate and co-founder of the Bow Street Runners, London’s first professional police force.
Joseph Andrews is also published in the Penguin English Library.
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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
- By: Henry Fielding
- Narrator: Ken Danziger
- Length: 35 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2010
- Language: English
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Henry Fielding’s bawdy, colorful, high-spirited novel painted human vices and virtues with unprecedented honesty and good humor, making Tom Jones as fresh and entertaining today as it was when first published nearly three hundred years ago.
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Tom Jones
- By: Henry Fielding
- Narrator: Anton Lesser
- Length: 5 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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Fielding’s rollicking comic masterpiece sparkles with life in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatization. Abandoned child Tom is raised by the rich and benevolent squire Mr. Allworthy, much to the chagrin of Allworthy’s mean-natured nephew... Read more
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