W. Somerset Maugham's Ten Novels and Their Authors
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Henry Fielding
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22 hrs to read
Book V
Containing a portion of time somewhat longer than half a year.
I - Of
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II - In which Mr. Jones receives many friendly visits during his confinement; with some fine touches of the passion of love, scarce visible to the naked eye.
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III - Which all who have no heart will think to contain much ado about nothing.
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IV - A little chapter, in which is contained a little incident.
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V - A very long chapter, containing a very great incident.
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VI - By comparing which with the former, the reader may possibly correct some abuse which he hath formerly been guilty of in the application of the word love.
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VII - In which Mr. Allworthy appears on a sickbed.
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VIII - Containing matter rather natural than pleasing.
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IX - Which, among other things, may serve as a comment on that saying of Aeschines, that “drunkenness shows the mind of a man, as a mirrour reflects his person.”
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X - Showing the truth of many observations of Ovid, and of other more grave writers, who have proved beyond contradiction, that wine is often the forerunner of incontinency.
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XI - In which a simile in Mr. Pope’s period of a mile introduces as bloody a battle as can possibly be fought without the assistance of steel or cold iron.
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XII - In which is seen a more moving spectacle than all the blood in the bodies of Thwackum and Blifil, and of twenty other such, is capable of producing.
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