Tom Jones By Henry Fielding - Wordsworth Classics Book cover type:Paperback But it would mean signing

But it would mean signing up to the US Army and fighting for Lincoln

You watch him wage war on a foreign shore and comfort yourself with violent thoughts of your own

but she sees only his cowardice

even though he threatens everything she’s ever known

Tom Jones By Henry Fielding - Wordsworth Classics Book cover type:Paperback But it would mean signingIntroduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. Tom Jones is widely regarded as one of the first and most influential English novels. It is certainly the funniest. Tom Jones, the hero of the book, is introduced to the reader as the ward of a liberal Somerset squire. Tom is a generous but slightly wild and feckless country boy with a weakness for young women. Misfortune, followed by many spirited