by Henry Fielding · ISBN 9788440211057
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«Tom Jones» is the novel by Henry Fielding, with 798 pages, in Spanish.
The novel is set in eighteenth-century England and combines an adventure plot with love and social criticism. Throughout the story, romantic entanglements, comic episodes and situations that expose the hypocrisy and contradictions of the society of the time follow one another.
The edition is from 1991.
Henry Fielding was an English writer and judge known for the use of humour and satire in his works. His famous novels include Shamela (1741), Joseph Andrews (1742), The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749) and Amelia (1751). Along with Samuel Richardson, Fielding is seen as the founder of the traditional English novel. As well as being a novelist, Fielding was also a playwright, known for his satirical comedies The Author's Farce (1730), Tom Thumb (1730), The Letter Writers (1731) and The Tragedy of Tragedies (1731). He also played an important role in the history of law enforcement in the United Kingdom, using his authority as a magistrate to found the Bow Street Runners, London's first professional police force.
