A good-hearted foundling stumbles through scrapes, seductions, and the open road on his way to winning his beloved Sophia.
Books that mention Tom Jones (12)
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: “…her question, but he prevented her by saying, "Novels are all so full of nonsense and stuff; there has not been a tolerably decent one come out since Tom Jones, except The Monk; I read that t'other day; but as for all the others, they are the stupidest things in creation."”
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens: “From that blessed little room, Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Humphrey Clinker, Tom Jones, the Vicar of Wakefield, Don Quixote, Gil Blas, and Robinson Crusoe, came out, a glorious host, to keep me company.”
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope: “If "Tom Jones" had been consumed by flames!”
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain: “However, I had read "Tom Jones," and "Roderick Random," and other books of that kind, and knew that the highest and first ladies and gentlemen in England had remained little or no cleaner in their talk, and in the morals and conduct which such talk implies, clear up to a hundred years ago; in fact…”
Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon: “There was an old Greek Testament and the Eton Latin Grammar; a French pamphlet on the cavalry sword-exercise; an odd volume of Tom Jones with one half of its stiff leather cover hanging to it by a thread; Byron's Don Juan, printed in a murderous type, which must have been invented for the special…”
The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams: “He liked her refined figure; her gentle voice and manner; her vague effect of not belonging there, but to Washington or to Europe, like her furniture, and writing-desk with little glass doors above and little eighteenth-century volumes in old binding, labelled "Peregrine Pickle" or "Tom Jones" or "Hannah More."”
Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf: “the mystic book in which Henry Fielding ever so many years ago rebuked Fanny Elmer... She bought Tom Jones.”
Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells: “It was a large, littered, self-forgetful apartment, decorated with unframed charcoal sketches by various incipient masters; and an open bookcase, surmounted by plaster casts and the half of a human skull, displayed an odd miscellany of books--Shaw and Swinburne, Tom Jones, Fabian Essays, Pope and Dumas, cheek by jowl.”
A Lost Lady by Willa Cather: “Then he read "Tom Jones" and "Wilhelm Meister" and raced on until he came to Montaigne and a complete translation of Ovid.”
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante: “...none of my classmates had ever wanted me to recount—just to give an example—the plot of Tom Jones.”
The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie: “he had taken the name of 'Fielding' as a genuflection to the author of Tom Jones”
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist by Orhan Pamuk: “an unforgettable hero like Tom Jones, Ivan Karamazov, Madame Bovary, Père Goriot, Anna Karenina, or Oliver Twist”