History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Name: History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Author: Henry Fielding

by Henry Fielding

Pages: about 1270
Category: Literature & Fiction
Language: English
Reading time: 23 h at 250 wpm

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Chapter x -- The hospitality of Allworthy; with a short sketch of the characters of two brothers, a doctor and a captain, who were entertained by that gentleman.
Chapter xi -- Containing many rules, and some examples, concerning falling in love: descriptions of beauty, and other more prudential inducements to matrimony.
Chapter xii -- Containing what the reader may, perhaps, expect to find in it.
Chapter xiii -- Which concludes the first book; with an instance of ingratitude, which, we hope, will appear unnatural.
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.
Chapter i -- Showing what kind of a history this is; what it is like, and what it is not like.
Chapter ii -- Religious cautions against showing too much favour to bastards; and a great discovery made by Mrs Deborah Wilkins.
Chapter iii -- The description of a domestic government founded upon rules directly contrary to those of Aristotle.
Chapter iv -- Containing one of the most bloody battles, or rather duels, that were ever recorded in domestic history.
Chapter v -- Containing much matter to exercise the judgment and reflection of the reader.
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.
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.
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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