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 VI
Containing about three weeks.
I - Of love.
4 mins
II - The character of Mrs. Western. Her great learning and knowledge of the world, and an instance of the deep penetration which she derived from those advantages.
9 mins
III - Containing two defiances to the critics.
6 mins
IV - Containing sundry curious matters.
3 mins
V - In which is related what passed between Sophia and her aunt.
7 mins
VI - Containing a dialogue between Sophia and Mrs. Honour, which may a little relieve those tender affections which the foregoing scene may have raised in the mind of a good-natured reader.
4 mins
VII - A picture of formal courtship in miniature, as it always ought to be drawn, and a scene of a tenderer kind painted at full length.
6 mins
VIII - The meeting between Jones and Sophia.
3 mins
IX - Being of a much more tempestuous kind than the former.
7 mins
X - In which Mr. Western visits Mr. Allworthy.
7 mins
XI - A short chapter; but which contains sufficient matter to affect the good-natured reader.
3 mins
XII - Containing love-letters,
5 mins
XIII - The behaviour of Sophia on the present occasion; which none of her sex will blame, who are capable of behaving in the same manner. And the discussion of a knotty point in the court of conscience.
6 mins
XIV - A short chapter, containing a short dialogue between Squire Western and his sister.
2 mins
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Of love.
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