<p>Henry Fielding: A Literary Life characterizes Fielding's complex personality, in some ways full of contradiction, and yet resolved both by a deep knowledge of human nature, including his own, and by his innate social constructiveness and his gift for friendship and love. The book also details way
Henry Fielding: A Literary Life
โ Scribed by Harold Pagliaro
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 248
- Series
- Macmillan Literary Lives
- Category
- Library
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