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Albert Finney as Tom Jones in Tony Richardson's 1963 film version of the novel by Henry Fielding.
Albert Finney as Tom Jones in Tony Richardson's 1963 film version of the novel by Henry Fielding.

Tom Jones

novel by Fielding
Also known as: “The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling”
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Tom Jones, comic novel by Henry Fielding, published in 1749. Tom Jones, like its predecessor, Joseph Andrews, is constructed around a romance plot. Squire Allworthy suspects that the infant whom he adopts and names Tom Jones is the illegitimate child of his servant Jenny Jones. When Tom is a young man, he falls in love with Sophia Western, his beautiful and virtuous neighbour. In the end his true identity is revealed and he wins Sophia’s...

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