Bernhard Huss · @huss
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For however it may seem a paradox, or even a contradiction, certain it is, that great philanthropy chiefly inclines us to avoid and detest mankind; not on account so much of their private and selfish vices, but for those of a relative kind; such as envy, malice, treachery, cruelty, with every other species of malevolence.

(… says the man of the hill in , )

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#TomJones #Fielding

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Bernhard Huss · @huss
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about philosophers @bookstodon

#TomJones #Fielding

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Bernhard Huss · @huss
478 followers · 1525 posts · Server mstdn.social

My Sunday evening citation, reflecting on today’s news
( b. 3 ch. 9 init.) @bookstodon @marphurius

#TomJones #Fielding

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Bernhard Huss · @huss
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My Sunday evening citation, reflecting on today’s news
( b. 3 ch. 9 init.) @bookstodon @marphurius

#TomJones #Fielding

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Bernhard Huss · @huss
471 followers · 1462 posts · Server mstdn.social

My Sunday evening citation, reflecting on today’s news
( b. 3 ch. 9 init.) @bookstodon @marphurius

#TomJones #Fielding

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Bernhard Huss · @huss
478 followers · 1525 posts · Server mstdn.social

Not a bad candidate for the best preface to a novel: chapter 1 || @bookstodon

#TomJones #Fielding

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Robert Pickering · @robertpi
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I started to read Tom Jones in my late teens, I don't think I every finished it. I started to ready it because I liked the character of Tom as portrayed in a TV adaptation. Tom is vigorous, drunken, yet good hearted. I guess I aspired to that at the time.

One thing I enjoyed about Fielding's work was his ability to summarize the chapter in a sentence or two for the title. Reading the chapter feels more relaxing when you know up front what's going to happen.

I enjoy content warnings on Mastodon for the same reason and indent to make mine as Fielding-eque as possible.

#mastodon #culture #tomjones #Fielding #cw

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Christina ✅ 🇨🇦 · @cosullivan
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Tom Moran's 10 Greatest of All Time
1) The Tale of Genji by Lady

2) Don Quixote by Miguel de Saavedra
3) Tom Jones by Henry
4) The Dream of the Red Chamber (a.k.a. The Story of the Stone) by Ts’ao Hsueh-ch’in
5) Vanity Fair by William Makepeace
6) War and Peace by Leo
7) Sentimental Education by Gustave
8) The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor
9) In Search of Lost Time by Marcel
10) Ulysses by James

#novels #Murasaki #cervantes #Fielding #Thackeray #tolstoy #Flaubert #dostoyevsky #proust #joyce

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