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Histoire de Tom Jones, ou l’Enfant trouvé

  • Publication type: Book
  • Author: Fielding (Henry)
  • Scientific editor: Langille (Édouard)
    Adaptor: La Place (Pierre-Antoine de)
  • Abstract: The History of Tom Jones (1749) by Fielding is the first English novel of manners. Translated into French by Pierre-Antoine de La Place, L'Enfant trouvé enjoyed great success. A likely source for Voltaire's Candide, the novel was adapted for the stage before being translated into almost all European languages.
  • Number of pages: 672
  • Parution: 07-23-2013
  • Collection: Eighteenth-Century Library, n° 22
  • CLIL theme: 3439 -- LITTÉRATURE GÉNÉRALE -- Oeuvres classiques -- Moderne (<1799)
  • EAN: 9782812409639
  • ISBN: 978-2-8124-0963-9
  • ISSN: 2109-7623
  • DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-8124-0965-3
  • Publisher: Classiques Garnier
  • Online publication: 08-22-2013
  • Language: French
  • Keyword: Anglomanie, roman picaresque, roman comique, roman sentimental, roman larmoyant, traduction, adaptation, théâtre bourgeois
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