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The history of Tom Jones, a foundling
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Life and Works of Henry Fielding
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BOOK I CONTAINING AS MUCH OF THE BIRTH OF THE FOUNDLING AS IS NECESSARY OR PROPER TO ACQUAINT THE READER WITH IN THE BEGINNING OF THIS HISTORY
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BOOK II CONTAINING SCENES OF MATRIMONIAL FELICITY IN DIFFERENT DEGREES OF LIFE; AND VARIOUS OTHER TRANSACTIONS DURING THE FIRST TWO YEARS AFTER THE MARRIAGE BETWEEN CAPTAIN BLIFIL AND MISS BRIDGET ALLWORTHY
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CHAPTER I. Showing what kind of a history this is; what it is like, and what it is not like
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CHAPTER II. Religious cautions against showing too much favour to bastards; and a great discovery made by Mrs. Deborah Wilkins
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CHAPTER III. The description of a domestic government founded upon rules directly contrary to those of Aristotle
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CHAPTER IV. Containing one of the most bloody battles, or rather duels, that were ever recorded in domestic history
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CHAPTER V. Containing much matter to exercise the judgment and reflection of the reader
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CHAPTER VI. The trial of Partridge, the schoolmaster, for incontinency; the evidence of his wife; a short reflection on the wisdom of our law; with other grave matters, which those will like best who understand them most
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CHAPTER VII. A short sketch of that felicity which prudent couples may extract from hatred: with a short apology for those people who overlook imperfections in their friends
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CHAPTER VIII. A receipt to regain the lost affections of a wife, which hath never been known to fail in the most desperate cases
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CHAPTER IX. A proof of the infallibility of the foregoing receipt, in the lamentations of the widow; with other suitable decorations of death, such as physicians, &c., and an epitaph in the true style
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BOOK III CONTAINING THE MOST MEMORABLE TRANSACTIONS WHICH PASSED IN THE FAMILY OF MR. ALLWORTHY, FROM THE TIME WHEN TOMMY JONES ARRIVED AT THE AGE OF FOURTEEN, TILL HE ATTAINED THE AGE OF NINETEEN. IN THIS BOOK THE READER MAY PICK UP SOME HINTS CONCERNING THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN
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BOOK IV CONTAINING THE TIME OF A YEAR
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BOOK V CONTAINING A PORTION OF TIME SOMEWHAT LONGER THAN HALF A YEAR
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BOOK VI CONTAINING ABOUT THREE WEEKS
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BOOK VII CONTAINING THREE DAYS
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BOOK VIII CONTAINING ABOUT TWO DAYS
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BOOK IX CONTAINING TWELVE HOURS
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BOOK X IN WHICH THE HISTORY GOES FORWARD ABOUT TWELVE HOURS
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BOOK XI CONTAINING ABOUT THREE DAYS
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BOOK XII CONTAINING THE SAME INDIVIDUAL TIME WITH THE FORMER
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BOOK XIII CONTAINING THE SPACE OF TWELVE DAYS
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BOOK XIV CONTAINING TWO DAYS
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BOOK XV IN WHICH THE HISTORY ADVANCES ABOUT TWO DAYS
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BOOK XVI CONTAINING THE SPACE OF FIVE DAYS
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BOOK XVII CONTAINING THREE DAYS
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BOOK XVIII CONTAINING ABOUT SIX DAYS
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The history of Tom Jones, a foundling
The History of TOM JONES
A foundling
By
Henry Fielding
New York
A. L. Burt Company
The history of Tom Jones, a foundling