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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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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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CHAPTER I. Of the serious in writing, and for what purpose it is introduced
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CHAPTER II. In which Mr. Jones receives many friendly visits during his confinement; with some fine touches of the passion of love, scarce visible to the naked eye
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CHAPTER III. Which all who have no heart will think to contain much ado about nothing
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CHAPTER IV. A little chapter, in which is contained a little incident
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CHAPTER V. A very long chapter, containing a very great incident
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CHAPTER VI. By comparing which with the former, the reader may possibly correct some abuse which he hath formerly been guilty of in the application of the word love
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CHAPTER VII. In which Mr. Allworthy appears on a sick-bed
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CHAPTER VIII. Containing matter rather natural than pleasing
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CHAPTER IX. Which, among other things, may serve as a comment on that saying of Æschines, that "drunkenness shows the mind of a man, as a mirrour reflects his person"
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CHAPTER X. Showing the truth of many observations of Ovid, and of other more grave writers, who have proved beyond contradiction, that wine is often the forerunner of incontinency
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CHAPTER XI. In which a simile in Mr. Pope's period of a mile introduces as bloody a battle as can possibly be fought without the assistance of steel or cold iron
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CHAPTER XII. In which is seen a more moving spectacle than all the blood in the bodies of Thwackum and Blifil, and of twenty other such, is capable of producing
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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

By

Henry Fielding

New York
A. L. Burt Company
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