00000nam a2200000 a 4500 Fielding, Henry aut Verfasser/-in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Fielding, Henry London Penguin Books 2005 12. Aufl. A comic novel by the English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. The novel is both a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel. First published on 28 February 1749 in London, Tom Jones is among the earliest English prose works describable as a novel,[1] and is the earliest novel mentioned by W. Somerset Maugham in his 1948 book Great Novelists and Their Novels among the ten best novels of the world. 9780140436228 9780140436228 0140436227 0140436227 eng Band 975 S.