* Beautifully illustrated with atmospheric paintings by renowned artists, Tom Jones is rightly regarded as Fielding’s greatest work, and one of the first and most influential of English novels. Attacked at the time as `A motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery’, it overflows with a marvelous assortment of prudes, whores, libertines, bumpkins, misanthropes, hypocrites, scoundrels, virgins, and all too fallible humanitarians.* Just as accessible and enjoyable for today’s readers as it would have been when first published over two centuries ago, the novel is one of the great works of English literature and continues to be widely read throughout the world.* This meticulous edition from Heritage Illustrated Publishing is a faithful reproduction of the original text and is enhanced with images of classic works of art carefully selected by our team of professional editors.