Reading The History of Tom Jones | Alexandria
Read The History of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding. Blending bawdy humor with profound moral wisdom, this comic masterpiece demolishes hypocrisy by showing how "virtue" often masks cruelty while apparent "vice" can reveal true goodness. Fielding's radical notion - that genuine morality stems from natural human impulses rather than rigid rules - challenged 18th-century dogma and still confronts our assumptions about ethics today.