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| When I ’m not thank’d at all, I ’m thank’d enough; / I ’ve done my duty, and I ’ve done no more. |
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1707–54, English novelist and dramatist. Born of a distinguished family, he was educated at Eton and studied law at Leiden. Settling in London in 1729, he began writing comedies, farces, and burlesques, the most notable being Tom Thumb (1730), and two satires, Pasquin (1736) and The Historical Register for 1736 (1737), which attacked the Walpole government and provoked the Licensing Act of 1737. This act, setting up a censorship of the stage, ended Fielding’s dramatic career and turned him to the less inhibited form of the novel. … His masterpiece is Tom Jones (1749), a novel recounting the wild comic adventures of the good-hearted though highly fallible foundling, Tom Jones.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Biographical Note from Harvard Classics.) |
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Pronunciation:  f l´d ng from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
First published in 1749, this two-volume great English novel is the cornerstone of the Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction.
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- Preface to Joseph Andrews
From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XXXIX.
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- Bartlett’s Fielding Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.
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- Fielding, Henry, 22058 to 22075
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
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- WRITINGS ABOUT FIELDING
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- “Fielding and Smollett”
Chapter by Harold Child with bibliography from the Cambridge History of English Literature.
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