The complete online text of The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great by Henry Fielding.

The English author and magistrate Henry Fielding (1707-1754) was one of the great novelists of the 18th century. His fiction, plays, essays, and legal pamphlets show he was a humane and witty man, with a passion for reform and justice. The English novel...

There are many ways, many forms, in which novelists attempt to give their readers what Henry Fielding in Tom Jones (1749) refers to as "a Representation, or, as Aristotle calls it, an Imitation of what really exists. . . ." Fielding is best remembered to...

There are many ways, many forms, in which novelists attempt to give their readers what Henry Fielding in Tom Jones (1749) refers to as "a Representation, or, as Aristotle calls it, an Imitation of what really exists...." Fielding is best remembered today...

All I want out of life is that, when I walk down the street, folks will say, "There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived." - Ted Williams, age 20, years before being paraphrased in Bernard Malamud's "The Natural" They...

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