![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() During the years 1728-37, he penned some 25 satirical plays of drama, comedy, farce and burlesque to critical and popular acclaim.Īs a young man, Fielding liked the good life, “good wine, good clothes, and good company,” according to another noted satirist of the time, William Makepeace Thackeray. After an Eton education, Fielding studied law abroad before returning home to work as a playwright. His first successes came as a playwright, and later as a jurist and journalist.īorn at Sharpham Park, Somerset, in 1707, Henry Fielding was a descendant of earls and the grandson of Sir Henry Gould. Yet novel writing was not Fielding’s first vocation, nor his second. Published in 1749, Tom Jones has been hailed as one of the great comic novels of English literature and author Henry Fielding’s masterpiece. “To invent good stories, and to tell them well, are possibly very rare talents,” observed Henry Fielding in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Book Review) Close ![]()
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