W. Somerset Maugham's Ten Novels and Their Authors
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Henry Fielding
5 mins to start
22 hrs to read
Book IV
Containing the time of a year.
I - Containing five pages of paper.
4 mins
II - A short hint of what we can do in the sublime, and a description of Miss Sophia Western.
4 mins
III - Wherein the history goes back to commemorate a trifling incident that happened some years since; but which, trifling as it was, had some future consequences.
4 mins
IV - Containing such very deep and grave matters, that some readers, perhaps, may not relish it.
4 mins
V - Containing matter accommodated to every taste.
8 mins
VI - An apology for the insensibility of Mr. Jones to all the charms of the lovely Sophia
6 mins
VII - Being the shortest chapter in this book.
1 min
VIII - A battle sung by the Muse in the Homerican style, and which none but the classical reader can taste.
8 mins
IX - Containing matter of no very peaceable colour.
4 mins
X - A story told by Mr. Supple, the curate. The penetration of Squire Western. His great love for his daughter, and the return to it made by her.
6 mins
XI - The narrow escape of Molly Seagrim, with some observations for which we have been forced to dive pretty deep into nature.
7 mins
XII - Containing much clearer matters; but which flowed from the same fountain with those in the preceding chapter.
4 mins
XIII - A dreadful accident which befell Sophia. The gallant behaviour of Jones, and the more dreadful consequence of that behaviour to the young lady; with a short digression in favour of the female sex.
4 mins
XIV - The arrival of a surgeon.—His operations, and a long dialogue between Sophia and her maid.
8 mins
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