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Fielding’s novels 
The novel “The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great” is based on the life 
of a notorious criminal who ended his career on the gallows. Showing Jonathan’s thievish 
activity Fielding likens him to Prime Minister Walpole. Fielding’s satire is becoming very sharp 
when he describes the prison where Jonathan is sitting. Fielding turns this prison into an 

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allegorical description of the English social and political life of that time. It refers to the kind of 
novels about adventures.
“The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling” (1749) is his principal novel. It contains a picture of 
life and manners and tells the story of Tom Jones, a generous, open, manly young fellow who 
gets into all sorts of scrapes.
In his works Fielding strongly criticizes social relations in the contemporary England. Aristocrats 
and men set in authority embody all the evils; they persecute the heroes and obstruct their every 
more and action.
The author’s positive characters are always people with natural unspoiled feelings. To make 
them acceptable to the 18
th
century reader, Joseph Andrews, the manservant, and Tom Jones, the 
foundling, though of noble origin, still they have nothing aristocratic about them and in their 
feelings and behavior remain closely related to the common people.
Fielding was the first to introduce into the novel real characters in their actual surroundings. His 
characters are vivid full-blooded and humane people. In search of happiness they travel about the 
country, and their various adventures are full of humour and sound cheerfully. Their hearts are 
open to pure love, virtue and justice. His novels are bright, sparkling and full of the liveliest 
humor.
Fielding’s works display boundless optimism, broad humanity and inexhaustible faith in man. 
All these features plus the brilliant artistic language of his writings, make Fielding one of the 
greatest masters of the realistic novels.
Many generations have read “The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling” rightly called an ancestor 
of the modern realistic novel.
The history of literature knows a few writers endowed with such versatile talents as Fielding. He 
left a rich legacy of novels, comedies, poems, pamphlets and essays. A talented novelist and a 
playwright of great originality, a master of humor and satire, he was one of the most outstanding 
figures in that significant period in history known as the age of Enlightenment.