Henry Fielding
The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling
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Tom Jones is considered one of the first prose works describable as a novel. The novel is divided into 18 smaller books. Tom Jones is a foun…
Joseph Andrews
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"Joseph Andrews ... was the first published full-length novel of the English author and magistrate Henry Fielding, and indeed among the…
Amelia (Vol. 1)
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This is the first volume of a three volume novel. In this novel, Amelia marries William Booth against her mother's desires, and the two must…
An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews (Dramatic Reading)
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An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews, or simply Shamela, as it is more commonly known, is a satirical novel written by Henry Fiel…
The World's Best Poetry, Volume 5: Nature (Part 1)
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The fifth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, inclu…
Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
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Sailing voyage from England to Portugal in the mid Eighteenth Century, by one of the premier humorists, satirists, novelists and playwrights…
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books
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Charles W. Eliot, 21st President of Harvard University, edited this volume of prefaces ... authored by a Who's Who of World Literature: Baco…
A Journey from This World to the Next
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The narrator dies in the first sentence. Through relating his travels in the afterlife, Henry Fielding, author of Tom Jones and Joseph Andre…
The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great
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This novel is sometimes thought of as [Fielding's] first because he almost certainly began composing it before he wrote Shamela and Joseph A…
The Old Debauchees
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Young Laroon plans to marry Isabel, but Father Martin manipulates Isabel's father, Jourdain, in order to seduce Isabel. However, other chara…
An Enquiry Into The Causes Of The Late Increase Of Robbers
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Early eighteenth century England saw the criminal element bargaining with magistrates and lawyers to be released or receive lenient sentence…
The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great
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Tom Thumb, small of stature, great of heart. This play was written as a parody of the tragic heroic biography of a great man, filled with bi…
Don Quixote in England
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"The Audience, I believe, are all acquainted with the Character of Don Quixote and Sancho. I have brought them over into England, and i…
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Version 2)
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"I do not pretend to say the young man is without faults; but they are all the faults of wildness and of youth; faults which he may, na…
Amelia (Vol. 3)
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Volume three in the trilogy entitled Amelia. A continuation of the love story of Amelia and her husband Willam Booth and the trials and trib…
The Author's Farce
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Henry Fielding could not write plays that he could get published. So he decided to write a play - a farce - about that, and success was his …