The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling

基本信息

出版社: Penguin Classics; Reprint (2005年9月27日)

外文书名: 汤姆·琼斯

丛书名: Penguin Classics

平装: 1024页

语种： 英语

ISBN: 0140436227

条形码: 9780140436228

商品尺寸: 13.1 x 4.6 x 19.7 cm

商品重量: 685 g

ASIN: 0140436227

内容简介

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.

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《Tom Jones (Wordsworth Classics) (汤姆 琼斯)》由Henry Fielding编著。 --此文字指其他 平装 版本。

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Tom Jones...has been admired by many readers as the most meticulously crafted book of its type. With neoclassic objectivity, humor, and fine psychological delicacy, Fielding dissects the motives of his characters to reveal universal truths about human nature. --Masterpieces of World Literature

Two hundred years have not dimmed Fielding's realism. His humor is closer to our own than that of any writer before the present century. --Kingsley Amis

作者简介

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.

Thomas Keymer is Elmore Fellow and Tutor in English at St. Anne’s College, Oxford.

Alice Wakely teaches at the University of York.

目录

BOOK Ⅰ

Containing as much of the birth of the foundling as is necessary or proper to acquaint the reader with in the beginning of this history

Ⅰ.The introduction to the work,or bill of fare to the feast

Ⅱ.A short description of squire Allwortby,and a fuller account of Miss Bridget Allwortby,his sister

Ⅲ.An odd accident wbicb befel Mr Allworthy at his return home.Tbe decent behaviour of Mrs Deborab Wilkins,with some proper animadversions on bastards

Ⅳ.The reader's neck brought into danger by a description;his escape;and the great condescension of Miss Bridget Allwortby

Ⅴ.Containing a few common matters,with a very uncommon observation upon them

Ⅵ.Mrs Deborab isintroduced into the parish with a simile.A short account of Fenny fones,with the difficulties and discouragements whicb may attend young women in the pursuit of learning

Ⅶ.Containing such grave matter,that the reader cannot laugh once through the whole chapter,unless peradventure he should laugh at the author

Ⅷ.A dialogue between Mesdames Bridget and Deborab;containing more amusement,but less instruction,than the former

Ⅸ.Containing matters which will surprise the reader

Ⅹ.The hospitality of Allwortby;with a short sketch of tbe characters of two brothers,a doctor and a captain,who were enterained by that gentleman

Ⅺ.Containing many rules,and some examples,concerning falling in love:descriptions of beauty,and other more prudential inducements to matrimony

Ⅻ.Containing what the first book;with an instance of ingratitude,whicb,we hope,will appear unnatural

BOOK Ⅱ Containing scenes of matrimonial felicity in different degrees of life;and various other transactions during the first two years after the marriage between Captain Blifil and Miss Bridget Allworthy

Ⅰ.Showing what kind of a history this is ;what it is like,and what it is not like

Ⅱ.Religious cautions against showing too much favour to bastards;and a great discovery made by Mrs Deborab Wilkins

Ⅲ.The desciption of a domestic government founded upon rules directly contrary to those of Aristotle

Ⅳ.Containing one of the most bloody battles,or rather duels,that were ever recorded in domestic history

Ⅴ.Containing much matter to exercise the judgement and reflection of the reader

Ⅵ.The trial of Partridge,the schoolmaster,for incontinency;the evidence of his wife;a short reflection on the wisdom of our law ;with other grave matters,which those will like best who understand them most

Ⅶ.A short sketch of that felicity which prudent couples may extract from hatred:with a short apology for those people who overlook imperfections in their friends

Ⅷ.A receipt to regain the lost affections of a wife,whicb bath never been known to fail in the most desperate cases

Ⅸ.A proof of the infallibility of the foregoing receipt,in the lamentations of the widow;with other suitable decorations of death,such as physicians,etc,and an epitaph in the true stile

BOOK Ⅲ

Containing the most memorable transactions which passed in the family of Mr Allworthy,from the time when Tommy Jones arrived at the age of fourteen,till he attained the age of concerning the education of children

Ⅰ.Containing little or nothing

Ⅱ.The heroe of this great history appears with very bad omens. A litte tale of so low a kind that some may think it not worth their notice.A word or two concerning a squire,and more relating to a gamekeeper and a shoolmaster

Ⅲ.The character of Mr Square the philosopher,and of Mr Thwackum the divine;with a dispute concerning-

Ⅳ.Containing a necessary apology for the author;and a cbildish incident,which perhaps an apology likewise

……

BOOK Ⅳ Containing the time of year

BOOK Ⅴ Containing a portion of time somewhat longer than half a year

BOOK Ⅵ Containing about three weeks

BOOK Ⅶ Containing about three days

BOOK Ⅷ Containing about two days

BOOK Ⅸ Containing twlve hours

BOOK Ⅹ In which the history goes forward about twelve hours

BOOK Ⅺ Containing about three days

BOOK Ⅻ Containing the same individual time with former

BOOK ⅩⅢ Containing two days

BOOK ⅩⅣ Containing the space of five days

BOOK ⅩⅤ Containing three days

BOOK ⅩⅥ Containing about six days

GLOSSARY

NOTES TO THE TEXT --此文字指其他 平装 版本。

文摘

This conflict began soon to produce very strong and visible effects: forhe lost all his usual sprightliness and gaiety of temper, and became notonly melancholy when alone, but dejected and absent in company; nay, ifever he put on a forced mirth, to comply with Mr Western's humour, theconstraint appeared so plain, that he seemed to have been giving thestrongest evidence of what he endeavoured to conceal by such ostentation.It may, perhaps, be a question, whether the art which he used to concealhis passion, or the means which honest nature employed to reveal it,betrayed him most: for while art made him more than ever reserved toSophia, and forbad him to address any of his discourse to her, nay, toavoid meeting her eyes, with the utmost caution; nature was no less busyin counter-plotting him. Hence, at the approach of the young lady hegrew pale; and if this was sudden, started. If his eyes accidentally met hersthe blood rushed into his cheeks, and his countenance became all overscarlet. If common civility ever obliged him to speak to her, as to drinkher health at table, his tongue was sure to falter. If he touched her, hishand, nay, his whole frame, trembled. And if any discourse tended,however remotely, to raise the idea of love, an involuntary sigh seldomfailed to steal from his bosom. Most of which accidents nature waswonderfully industrious to throw daily in his way.All these symptoms escaped the notice of the squire; but not so ofSophia. She soon perceived these agitations of mind in Jones, and was atno loss to discover the cause; for indeed she recognised it in her ownbreast. And this recognition is, I suppose, that sympathy which hath beenso often noted in lovers, and which will sufficiently account for her beingso much quicker-sighted than her father.But, to say the truth, there is a more simple and plain method ofaccounting for that prodigious superiority of penetration which we mustobserve in some men over the rest of the human species, and one whichwill serve not only in the case of lovers, but of all others. From whence is itthat the knave is generally so quick-sighted to those symptoms andoperations of knavery, which often dupe an honest man of a much betterunderstanding？