Tom Jones

Henry Fielding · 1749 CE · Novel · English · Enlightenment

Raised by a benevolent Somerset squire who found him as an infant, Tom is turned out of the house on suspicion of loose conduct and takes to the road for London. Sophia Western, the neighbor's daughter he loves and cannot claim, is running the same roads from a marriage arranged for her. The comic novel at full sprawl, with the author narrating from a chair pulled up beside the reader.

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Lineage

• influenced by ↑ Don Quixote
  Cervantes · 1605 CE · Novel
• responds to ↑ Pamela
  Samuel Richardson · 1740 CE · Novel
• influenced by ↑ Gil Blas
  Alain-René Lesage · 1715 CE · Novel
• ↓ David Copperfield
  Charles Dickens · 1850 CE · Novel — alludes to this
• ↓ Vanity Fair
  W. M. Thackeray · 1848 CE · Novel — influenced by this
• ↓ Oliver Twist
  Charles Dickens · 1838 CE · Novel — influenced by this
• ↓ Tom Jones
  Tony Richardson · 1963 CE · Film — adapts this

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  Henry Fielding · 1742 CE · Novel

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  Tony Richardson · 1963 CE · Film

  71% · 13 shared
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  66% · 13 shared
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• Gil Blas
  Alain-René Lesage · 1715 CE · Novel

  62% · 14 shared
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  60% · 12 shared
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