Published in 1749, Henry Fielding’s The History of Tom Jones is one of the great comic novels in English. It follows the good-natured but impulsive Tom Jones — a foundling of uncertain parentage raised on a Somerset estate — through a series of hilarious, scandalous, and ultimately redemptive adventures across Georgian England as he pursues the love of the beautiful and virtuous Sophia Western.
Fielding’s narrator is witty, digressive, and constantly engaging, making the novel a pleasure to read at every level. Coleridge called its plot one of the three most perfect in all literature. Download this free EPUB from Better Gutenberg and enjoy an eighteenth-century classic at its most entertaining.