Author of Audiobooks - Henry Fielding
An Enquiry Into The Causes Of The Late Increase Of Robbers - Henry Fielding
An Enquiry Into The Causes Of The Late Increase Of Robbers - Henry Fielding
- Author: Henry Fielding
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Early eighteenth century England saw the criminal element bargaining with magistrates and lawyers to be released or receive lenient sentences. Neither party could be trusted and the situation grew worse. Enter famed author Henry Fielding, who had a...
Joseph Andrews - Henry Fielding
Joseph Andrews - Henry Fielding
- Author: Henry Fielding
- Genre: General Fiction
"Joseph Andrews ... was the first published full-length novel of the English author and magistrate Henry Fielding, and indeed among the first novels in the English language. Published in 1742 and defined by Fielding as a ‘comic romance,’ it is the...
The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great - Henry Fielding
The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great - Henry Fielding
- Author: Henry Fielding
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Satire
This novel is sometimes thought of as [Fielding's] first because he almost certainly began composing it before he wrote Shamela and Joseph Andrews. It is a satire of Walpole that draws a parallel between Walpole and Jonathan Wild, the infamous gang...
Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon - Henry Fielding
Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon - Henry Fielding
- Author: Henry Fielding
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Memoirs
Sailing voyage from England to Portugal in the mid Eighteenth Century, by one of the premier humorists, satirists, novelists and playwrights of his age. It was to be his last work, as his failing health proved unable to persevere much longer after...
Amelia (Vol. 2) - Henry Fielding
Amelia (Vol. 2) - Henry Fielding
- Author: Henry Fielding
- Genre: Romance
The second volume of Amelia. - Summary by Libby Gohn...
Amelia (Vol. 1) - Henry Fielding
Amelia (Vol. 1) - Henry Fielding
- Author: Henry Fielding
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance
This is the first volume of a three volume novel. In this novel, Amelia marries William Booth against her mother's desires, and the two must move to London. Fielding explores the issues of married life such as infidelity and whether women's...
The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling - Henry Fielding
The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling - Henry Fielding
- Author: Henry Fielding
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Tom Jones is considered one of the first prose works describable as a novel. The novel is divided into 18 smaller books. Tom Jones is a foundling discovered on the property of a very kind, wealthy landowner, Squire Allworthy. Tom grows into a...
An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews (Dramatic Reading) - Henry Fielding
An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews (Dramatic Reading) - Henry Fielding
- Author: Henry Fielding
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews, or simply Shamela, as it is more commonly known, is a satirical novel written by Henry Fielding and first published in April 1741 under the name of Mr. Conny Keyber. Fielding never owned to writing...
The Old Debauchees - Henry Fielding
The Old Debauchees - Henry Fielding
- Author: Henry Fielding
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays / Satire
Young Laroon plans to marry Isabel, but Father Martin manipulates Isabel's father, Jourdain, in order to seduce Isabel. However, other characters, including both of the Laroons, try to manipulate Jourdain for their own ends; they accomplish it...
A Journey from This World to the Next - Henry Fielding
A Journey from This World to the Next - Henry Fielding
- Author: Henry Fielding
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
The narrator dies in the first sentence. Through relating his travels in the afterlife, Henry Fielding, author of Tom Jones and Joseph Andrews, gently satirizes life here on earth. (Summary by Denny Sayers) This project was proof listened by Linda...
The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great - Henry Fielding
The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great - Henry Fielding
- Author: Henry Fielding
- Genre: Satire / Tragedy
Tom Thumb, small of stature, great of heart. This play was written as a parody of the tragic heroic biography of a great man, filled with biting satire as to people and events of the time. Note as warned by the title that this is not a happy-ending...
The Author's Farce - Henry Fielding
The Author's Farce - Henry Fielding
- Author: Henry Fielding
- Genre: Satire
Henry Fielding could not write plays that he could get published. So he decided to write a play - a farce - about that, and success was his at last. The third act of the play is the play that the Author in the play supposedly writes - a Puppet Show...