1950s History of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding, British Novel Comic Foundling

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. It is a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel. It was first published on 28 February 1749 in London and is among the earliest English works to be classified as a novel. 1950s History of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding, British Novel Comic Foundling London Life Historical Fiction