Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Select Works of Henry Fielding, Vol. 1 of 2: With Memoir of the Life of the Author; Containing "the History of Tom Jones"
Under such precarious circumstances, the first Eng lish novel was given to the public, which had not yet seen any works of fiction founded upon the plan of painting from nature. Even Richardson's novels are but a step from the old romance, approaching, indeed more nearly to the ordinary course of events, but still dealing in improbable incidents, and in characters swelled out beyond the ordinary limits of humanity. The History of a Foundlmg is truth and human na ture itself, and there lies the inestimable advantage which it possesses over all previous fictions of this particular kind. It was received with unanimous w clamat'ion by the public, and proved so productive in Miller, the publisher, that he handsomely added lml. To owl, for which he had purchased the work from the author.
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