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基本信息·出版社：Oversea Publishing House
·页码：734 页
·出版日期：1999年01月
·ISBN：1853260215
·条形码：9781853260216
·版本：第1版
·装帧：平装
·开本：32
·正文语种：英语
·外文书名：汤姆·琼斯
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《Tom Jones (Wordsworth Classics) (汤姆 琼斯)》讲述了：Tom Jones is widely regarded as one of the first and most influential English novels.It is certainly the funniest.Tom Jones,the hero of the book,is introduced to the reader as the ward of a liberal Somerset squire.Tom is a generous but slightly wild and feckless country boy with a weakness for young women.Misfortune,followed by many spirited adventures as he travels to London to seek his fortune,teach him a sort of wisdom to go with his essential good-hearted-ness.
This‘comic,epic poem in prose’will make the modern reader laugh as much as it did his forbears.Its biting satire finds an echo in today's society,for as Doris Lessing recently remarked 'This country becomes every day more like the eighteenth century,full of thieves and adventurers,rogues and a robust,unhypocritical savagery side-by-side with people lecturing others on morality.'
作者简介 Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding,(born April 22, 1707, Sharpham Park, Somerset, Eng.-died Oct. 8, 1754, Lisbon, Port.) British novelist and playwright. Fielding attended Eton College but left early and lost his family's support. In his 25 plays, all written early, he was essentially a satirist of political corruption; because of his sharp commentary he was eventually effectively banished from the theatre, whereupon he took up the study of law. In 1748 he was appointed a magistrate, in which role he established a new tradition of justice and suppression of crime in London. He probably wrote Shamela (1741), a burlesque of Samuel Richardson's Pamela that he never claimed. In the entertaining and original Joseph Andrews (1742) he also parodies Richardson's novel. Tom Jones (1749), his most popular work, is noted for its great comic gusto, vast gallery of characters, and contrasted scenes of high- and lowlife. The more sober Amelia (1751) anticipates the Victorian domestic novel. In these works he helped develop the English novel as a planned, realistic narrative genre surveying contemporary society.
媒体推荐 Customer Reviews
1."Surely a man may speak truth with a smiling countenance!", 23 Jul 2006
Reviewer: M. Witcombe "mikethescottish" (Glasgow, Scotland)
'Tom Jones' is one of those lucky few- a book whose length is comparable in extent to its reader's enjoyment. 'Tom Jones' is a wonderfully dark, elaborately comic and utterly compelling account of the experiences of a young man as he pursues love, honour and fortune across 18th-Century England. Unlike many other novels and plays regarded as 'comic classics', Tom Jones is also genuinely funny. Seriously.
'Tom Jones' is enjoyable in and of itself- the characters and adventures are accessible, entertaining and varied. Despite this, one of the most interesting aspects of the novel is the introductory chapters to the novel's 18 'books'- short, usually amusing essays concerning theoretical aspects involved in the book. If you're pushed for time, you can skip them- but, much like the comic acts in certain Shakespeare plays, some of the best moments in the novel are contained in what can appear unneccessary literary 'padding'.
So don't be put off by its length, its age, its love for diversions and its complicated web of human relationships; Tom Jones is simply a fantastic read. Particularly for anyone acquainted with the historical environment the novel was written in, Tom Jones can be read as a satire on the hypocrisy of notions of honour; the scathing attack on those who marry for fortune rather than love has a peculiarly appealing modern resonance.
In the end, what's most revealing about Tom Jones is not how far the novel as a form has developed, but how little societal trends change over time. Fielding's world is one in which treachery and deceit are frequently the motives for acts of apparent benevolence, a world as hilarious as it is dangerous. If you've got a couple of weeks to spare, and a patient disposition, you could do a lot worse than to give 'Tom Jones' a try- for this price, you'd have to have a pretty good excuse not to!
2.its enormously and magnificently intricate plot..., 16 Nov 2000
Reviewer: Peter Marcus
....its enormously and magnificently intricate plot is one of the greatest ever, seeming so dense that the characters cannot escape, yet so loose as to allow them to have a good time. The introductory essays are excellent too. This is a very funny book, brilliantly attacking hypocrisy and immorality. Only its length could be cast against it for the modern reader - but believe me, getting through it is definitely worth it. The plot keeps cranking up right till the end.
编辑推荐 《Tom Jones (Wordsworth Classics) (汤姆 琼斯)》由Henry Fielding编著。
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
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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
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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 serv
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