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Henry Fielding
Birth date: 1707-04-22
Died: 1754-10-08
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Calyre
Calyre rated it 5 years ago
- A vrai dire, poursuivit-il, il est un degré de la générosité (de la charité, devrais-je dire) qui semble avoir quelque apparence de mérite, c'est quad, partant d'un principe de bonté et d'amour chrétien, on donne à autrui ce dont on a soi-même un besoin réel; quand, pour diminuer la détresse d'aut...
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Wild Oats, O'Keefe Veering more in the direction of farce and piling the coindicences higher than the other entries in this volume, Wild Oats nevertheless delivers the laughs, no doubt gaining much in performance. This collection gives a nice overview of 18th Century comedy and preserves some of t...
A Man With An Agenda
A Man With An Agenda rated it 8 years ago
Tom Jones, a bastard of infamous parentage, is nevertheless raised by the kind Squire Allworthy as a gentleman. He loves the neighboring Squire's daughter, Sophia, but has no problem sleeping around with the less scrupulous common girls while waiting for his chance with her. His foster father loves ...
Emad Attely [The Book Nerd]
Emad Attely [The Book Nerd] rated it 9 years ago

OMG! I laughed a lot!!It's really important to read something like this every now and then! The funny thing is that this was written as a response to another novel "Pamela"!It's usually said that it is easy to mock something, but it is difficult to create something new! That is why Fieldings is tru...
Reader! Reader!
Reader! Reader! rated it 9 years ago
Shamela gets a solid 3.5 stars: It is quite funny—though only if you have read Richardson's Pamela! Otherwise many of the jokes will not work. Unfortunately, Shamela is only about 50 pages.Joseph Andrews gets 2 stars: It certainly has its moments. I found parts 1, 3, and 4, to be the strongest. Part...
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