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This was so funny! Fielding's 18th century is very different from Dickens' 19th.
Tom Jones is constantly falling into bed with women and being forgiven by the love of his life. Men can get away with anything except dishonesty, it seems. But it's not all one-sided. Ladies seem to be able to do what they like with whoever they like after they are married, though they must be pure as snow before.
Fielding does amazing things at the end, to make Tom apparently fall irretrievably into the dirt and th ...more
Tom Jones is constantly falling into bed with women and being forgiven by the love of his life. Men can get away with anything except dishonesty, it seems. But it's not all one-sided. Ladies seem to be able to do what they like with whoever they like after they are married, though they must be pure as snow before.
Fielding does amazing things at the end, to make Tom apparently fall irretrievably into the dirt and th ...more
Read before I wrote reviews, before there was internet. Due a reread for sure. I know I liked it.
Tom Jones is an undertaking--one of the earliest English novels,clearly written before editors existed and just as clearly in need of an editor. But if you can make your way through the excess prose, you will be so richly rewarded!
I found this book extremely stupid
Oct 20, 2010
Diane
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Jul 25, 2011
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Oct 31, 2011
Andre Mitchell
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