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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
1749 novel by Henry Fielding
Title page from the 1749 edition | |
| Author | Henry Fielding |
|---|---|
| Original title | The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Andrew Millar |
Publication date | 28 February 1749 |
| Publication place | England |
| Text | Tom Jones at Wikisource |
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding.
It is a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel. It was first published on 28 February 1749 in London and is among the earliest English works to be classified as a novel.[1] 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.[2]
The novel is highly organised despite its length. Samuel Taylor Coleridge argued that it has one of the "three most perfect plots