Tom Jones - 2 Volume Set

Mina Urgan's translation, Forewords by the translator and Linda Bree, Afterword by Nicholas Hudson, With author and period chronology,

Henry Fielding's masterpiece, Tom Jones, depicts the 18th century English life in a magnificent panorama with its nobles and dishonors, excesses and virtues. Tom Jones, an orphan who grew up in the mansion of the good-hearted nobleman to whose door he was left, is smitten with his neighbor's inaccessible and beautiful daughter, Sophia Western; Despite this, he does not refrain from flirting and seducing the girls of the village. When the disobedient young Tom is finally thrown out of the door and begins to pursue his true identity and destiny, an adventure that will extend from the countryside of England to London begins. Tom Jones, whose author Fielding brings the joy of life, is one of the most enjoyable and entertaining examples of the English novel, even after almost three centuries.

"The intervening two centuries have taken nothing away from Fielding's realism. His sense of humor is more familiar to us than that of any writer in our century."
-Kingsley Amis-

Mina Urgan's translation, Dhoroty Van Ghent's foreword, William Empson's afterword, Author and period chronology,

Considered one of the cornerstones of the English novel, Tom Jones is one of the first works that showed humanity with all its virtues as well as its weaknesses.

Tom Jones is not actually a bad person; If he could control himself a little, he would show everyone how moral and virtuous he is. Tom, who was kicked out of his stepfather's house because of his anger and fondness for the girls of the town, loses all his money and finds himself in the middle of a journey where he encounters libertines, fools, hypocrites, hypocrites and scoundrels. The hero of this book, which was criticized as "a chaotic story full of illegitimate relationships, adultery and various sexual relations" when it was published in 1749, still continues to surprise its readers today as it did the day it was written.

"The unique, folk sense of humor and the in-depth but spontaneous display of characters of the great Henry Fielding, the father of the English novel, cannot be matched by anyone who follows him today."
-Walter Scott-
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 1064

Year of Printing: 2015


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Iletisim Publishing

Number of Pages: 1064

First Print Year: 2015

Language Turkish