书名：The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling弃儿汤姆·琼斯的历史

作者：Henry Fielding
出版社名称：Penguin Classics
出版时间：2005
语种：英文
ISBN：9780140436228
商品尺寸：12.7 x 4.6 x 19.6 cm
包装：平装
页数：1024（以实物为准）
The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling《弃儿汤姆·琼斯的历史》是菲尔丁伟大的代表作，就作品反映现实的广度和深度来说，这部作品可以称为英国十八世纪社会的散文史诗。作品讲述了私生子汤姆·琼斯寻求真爱的故事。

小说的社会背景十分广阔，前六卷写乡村，中间六卷写由乡村到伦敦旅途中的情景，后六卷写伦敦。作者塑造了从地主、贵族一直到士兵、流氓等各阶层的五十多个人物，通过各类不同人的言行和思想感情，揭示了广阔的社会现实，概括了当时英国社会生活的全貌，同时，通过各类人物的命运及相互关系的描写，深刻地展现了人性，表达了善必将战胜恶的人道主义理想。

这部作品在艺术上也有很高的成就。英国著名诗人柯勒律治认为这部作品的情节是一切文学当中很完美的情节之一，它的结构是英国小说的典范。

A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighboring squire—though he sometimes succumbs to the charms of the local girls. When Tom is banished to make his own fortune and Sophia follows him to London to escape an arranged marriage, the adventure begins. A vivid Hogarthian panorama of eighteenth-century life, spiced with danger and intrigue, bawdy exuberance and good-natured authorial interjections, Tom Jones is one of the greatest and most ambitious comic novels in English literature.

Review
“First book I ever read for school that I was sad to see end.” --Marlon James

“With each volume having an introduction by an acknowledged expert, and exhaustive notes, the World's Classics are surely the most desirable series and, all-round, the best value for the money.”--Oxford Times
奥尔华绥是一个善良大度而且富有的乡绅，收养了弃婴汤姆·琼斯，他妹妹的儿子布利非也生活在家中，是奥氏财产的合法继承人，布利非将汤姆视为争夺舅舅遗产的眼中钉，千方百计诋毁汤姆的荣誉，终于，汤姆被不明真相的奥尔华绥赶出了家门，开始了一连串悲喜交加的奇遇。

亨利·菲尔丁(1707-1754)，生于英国西南部格拉斯顿伯里附近的一个贵族家庭，是18世纪英国的四大现实主义作家之一。他早年通过改编莫里哀的喜剧《屈打成医》和《吝啬鬼》走上了剧本创作之路，但由于揭露英国的社会问题和批评政府，而也被当局吊销了剧本创作执照。此后的菲尔丁拓耕不断，在取得律师资格的同时，开始了小说的创作，先后发表了《约瑟夫·安德鲁斯》、《弃儿汤姆·琼斯史》等作品，奠定了他在英国文学史上的地位。

Henry Fielding (1707–1754) began his career as a novelist in 1740 with the publications of Shamela and then Joseph Andrews, with which he anticipates his masterpiece, Tom Jones.
An Author ought to consider himself, not as a Gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary Treat, but rather as one who keeps a public Ordinary, at which all Persons are welcome for their Money. In the former Case, it is well known, that the Entertainer provides what Fare he pleases; and tho' this should be very indifferent, and utterly disagreeable to the Taste of his Company, they must not find any Fault; nay, on the contrary, Good-Breeding forces them outwardly to approve and to commend whatever is set before them. Now the contrary of this happens to the Master of an Ordinary. Men who pay for what they eat, will insist on gratifying their Palates, however nice and whimsical these may prove; and if every Thing is not agreeable to their Taste, will challenge a Right to censure, to abuse, and to d—n their Dinner without Controul.

To prevent therefore giving Offence to their Customers by any such Disappointment, it hath been usual, with the honest and well-meaning Host, to provide a Bill of Fare, which all Persons may peruse at their first Entrance into the House; and, having thence acquainted themselves with the Entertainment which they may expect, may either stay and regale with what is provided for them, or may depart to some other Ordinary better accommodated to their Taste.

As we do not disdain to borrow Wit or Wisdom from any Man who is capable of lending us either, we have condescended to take a Hint from these honest Victuallers, and shall prefix not only a general Bill of Fare to our whole Entertainment, but shall likewise give the Reader particular Bills to every Course which is to be served up in this and the ensuing Volumes.

The Provision then which we have here made is no other than HUMAN NATURE. Nor do I fear that my sensible Reader, though most luxurious in his Taste, will start, cavil, or be offended, because I have named but one Article. The Tortoise, as the Alder-man of Bristol, well learned in eating, knows by much Experience, besides the delicious Calibash and Calipee, it contains many different kinds of Food; nor can the learned Reader be ignorant, that in Human Nature, tho' here collected under one general Name, is such prodigious Variety, that a Cook will have sooner gone through all the several Species of animal and vegetable Food in the World, than an Author will be able to exhaust so extensive a Subject.