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1、The History of Tom Jones,A Foundling The History of Tom Jones,A Foundling Henry Fielding is the most famous novelist and dramatist in the 18th century.One of his work The History of Tom Jones,A Foundling is regarded as Fieldings masterpiece,with the fame of being the best constructed novel in Englis

2、h literature,and Fielding has been therefore called the father of the realistic novel. This novel has 18 books divided neatly into 3 parts.The first six books describes childhood in Mr. Allworthys country home; the middle one contains adventures on the rode to London;the last tells what happens in L

3、ondon to Tom and Sophia. This novel describes the life experience of a foundling Tom Jones. Tom Jones is an illegitimate child and he was abandoned soon after his birth. Later,he was adopted by Mr. Allworthy. Mr. Allworthy let Tom Jones and the daughter of plantation owner Sophia fall in love.Howeve

4、r Blifil is very envy, he tried everything to slander Jones before Mr. Allworthy. Finally,Jones was driven out by Mr. Allworthy.Then he went to London to earn a life.During the same time Sophias father forced her to marry Blifil but she refused and fled to London to find Jones.One day, Jones met his

5、 foe and injured him during fighting. He was put into prison for that.And finally Mr. Allworthy knew that Jones was snared by Blifil and in fact Jones was his sisters bastard. All the things were come out into wash and Jones the heir of Mr. Allworthy and married Sophia. This novel plot organization

6、performance in the authors highly art. Tom Jones although plot complex numerous, but the author, characters, delicate, hierarchy in layout in an orderly way. In the story, character, increasing the plot appears compact. Novels in addition to Jones and Sophia successively runaways plot as the center,

7、 describes all kinds of sporting events outside, also describes some incidental story and characters.And I like the way Fielding writing skills,like constructing effective situations,conducting natural and vivid dialogues and developing his satire.So,I think its really a wonderful work of literature.