Tom Jones By Henry Fielding

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"It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible."

–Henry Fielding, died #OTD 1754. Of a privileged but not untroubled family background, Fielding was the first-born child of Colonel Edmund Fielding, nephew of the earl of Denbigh, and Sarah Gould, daughter of Sir Henry Gould, judge of the Queen's Bench. After attending Eton (1719–1724) and continuing his literary studies at the University of Leiden in Holland (1728, 1729), Fielding—who despite great expectations would always have to make his own way in the world—became London's most prolific and successful dramatist, remarkable for his experiments with form and for his social and political satires. In 1737, however, one of his satires—directed at the ministry of Sir Robert Walpole, the prime minister—precipitated the Theatrical Licensing Act, which shut Fielding's theater down. That same year, he entered the Middle Temple to prepare for a career in law; he was called to the bar in 1740.

Tom Jones 的漢譯本至少有2種。

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Born ‪#‎onthisday‬ in 1707: author Henry Fielding. Here are illustrations to his novel Tom Jones http://ow.ly/LXZrD