FIELDING'S 'TOM JONES' (LISTEN NOW ON BBC RADIO 4"IN OUR TIME"DISCUSSION PROGRAM)
Listen In Our Time Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss "The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling" (1749) by Henry Fielding (1707-1754), one of the most influential of the early English novels and a favourite of Dickens. Coleridge wrote that it had one of the 'three most perfect plots ever planned'. Fielding had made his name […]