Henry Fielding, best known for Tom Jones, brings his characteristic wit and irony to this mock-didactic essay on the art of courtship. Drawing playfully on Ovid’s Ars Amatoria, Fielding skewers the conventions of polite society and the absurdities of romantic pursuit in eighteenth-century England with the deft hand of a novelist who understood social comedy better than almost anyone of his era.
Short, sharp, and thoroughly entertaining, The Lovers Assistant showcases Fielding’s gift for comic observation in a delightfully compact form. Download this free EPUB for a quick and delightful taste of Georgian satirical wit.