The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling - W. Somerset Maugham's Ten Novels and Their Authors

22 hrs to read

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.

I - Showing what kind of a history this is: what it is like, and what it is not like.

2 mins

II - Religious cautions against showing too much favour to bastards; and a great discovery made by Mrs. Deborah Wilkins.

3 mins

III - The description of a domestic government founded upon rules directly contrary to those of Aristotle.

5 mins

IV - Containing one of the most bloody battles, or rather duels, that were ever recorded in domestic history.

7 mins

V - Containing much matter to exercise the judgment and reflection of the reader.

7 mins

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.

9 mins

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.

6 mins

VIII - A receipt to regain the lost affections of a wife, which hath never been known to fail in the most desperate cases.

2 mins

IX - A proof of the infallibility of the foregoing receipt, in the lamentations of the widow; with other suitable decorations of death, such as physicians, etc., and an epitaph in the true style.

6 mins

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