Tom Jones

Somewhere in the beginning Henry Fielding sets the rule of writing great fiction… …the Excellence of the mental Entertainment consists less in the Subject, than in the Author’s Skill in well dressing it up. And in full accordance with this immutable principle The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling is a Leggi tutto

Who reads this and laughs not at all may be forgiven only as a simpleton, and does not comprehend. Who reads this and laughs but a little is too dour and prideful to be of much use, and only laughs when he cannot help it. Who reads this and laughs a score is the wretched false-wit, and only laughs whe Leggi tutto

Here's another wonderful 18th century novel that blows up the easy breezy Shibboleth of "show, don't tell." Here the narrator tells and tells, and I laughed and laughed, and the plot moved like a fine engine through adventure after misadventure.

Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, ‘he was a blockhead;’ and upon my expressing astonishment at so strange an assertion, he said ‘What I mean by his being a blockhead is that he was a barren rascal.’ BOSWELL. ‘Will you not allow, Sir, that he draws very natural pictures of human life?’ Leggi tutto

بالاخره این 809 صفحه هم تمام شد اما پایانش میارزید به تمام وقتی که سر این کتاب گذاشته ام , داستان به قدری نبض خوب و هیجان انگیزی داشت و به موقع اتفاقات و زندگی شخصیت ها بالا و پایین میرفت که دلم نمیامد به دلیل سنگینی زیاد خود کتاب ! و خستگی دست ها برای نگه داشتن این کتاب قطور ! و چشم ها برای خواندن Leggi tutto