The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
Subgenre: ennobled by suffering, ambivalence, greed, suffering, rivalry, hypocrisy, redemption, pretentiousness, ambition, snobbery - Subgenre: eating - Subgenre: Life Stages / Teenagers, Life Stages / Adolescence, Adoption - Subgenre: forbidden love, class difference, lust, arranged marriages, affairs & romances, courtship & suitors, sexual adventures - Subgenre: Folklore & Mythology - Subgenre: coming of age - Subgenre: false accusation, honor & dishonor, city & country, twists of fate, courage & cowardice, wealth & poverty, virtue & vice, innocence & experience, sin & temptation, right & wrong, individual & family or group, justice & injustice, authority & obedience, truth & falsehood, loyalty & betrayal, love & duty - Subgenre: social climbers, upstarts, & parvenus, rubes & bumpkins, servants & domestics, star-crossed lovers, aristocrats, ministers, charmers, runaways, fugitives & escapees, cads & rakes, clowns & jesters, middle class - Subgenre: Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare - Subgenre: inheritance, rags to riches, riches to rags - Subgenre: officers - Subgenre: sibling rivalry, wards, foundlings, friendship between men or boys, brothers & sisters, uncles, cousins, abandonment, adoption, general, secrets, aunts, fathers & daughters, illegitimate children - Subgenre: General - Subgenre: humorous fiction, general, comedies of manners - Subgenre: satire, Bildungsroman, picaresque - Subgenre: rural, manors & estates - Format: Hardcover - Author: Henry Fielding
By: Henry Fielding