EASTON PRESS 100 Greatest Books Ever Written 1979 The History Of Tom Jones

Description: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding: The Easton Press, 1979.Book is in excellent condition, like new. Leather Bound. Accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The end sheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints. This book is in full leather with hubed spines. First Easton Press Edition.; 4to 11" - 13" tall.The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. It is a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel. It was first published on 28 February 1749 in London and is among the earliest English works to be classified as a novel. It is the earliest novel mentioned by W. Somerset Maugham in his 1948 book Great Novelists and Their Novels among the ten best novels of the world.The novel is highly organized despite its length. Samuel Taylor Coleridge argued that it has one of the "three most perfect plots ever planned," alongside Oedipus Tyrannus by Sophocles and The Alchemist by Ben Jonson. It became a best seller with four editions published in its first year alone. It is generally regarded as Fielding's greatest book and as an influential English novel.Fully and tightly bound in genuine leather.* 22kt gold accents deeply inlaid on the "hubbed" spine.* Heavy duty binding boards... .* Superbly printed on acid-neutral paper... .* Sewn pages – not just glued like ordinary books.* ...moiré endpages and a satin-ribbon page marker.* Gilded page ends.

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