One of the great comic novels in the English language, Tom Jones was an instant success when it was published in 1749: Ten thousand copies were sold in its first year. A foundling, Tom is discovered one evening by the benevolent Squire Allworthy and his sister Bridget and brought up as a son in their household until it is time for him to set out in search of both his fortune and his true identity. Amorous, high-spirited, and filled with what Fielding called "the glorious lust of doing good" but with a tendency toward dissolution, Tom Jones is one of the first characters in fiction to display legitimate sides of human virtue and vice. "Upon my word, I think Tom Jones is one of the most perfect plots ever planned, " said Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Product Description: Este libro cuenta la historia real de un nino rubio y de su familia en la Libia de Gadafi y la Siria de Hafez el Asad. / This is the unforgettable story of Riad Sattouf's childhood, spent in the shadows of 3 dictators. He recounts his nomadic childhood growing up in rural France, Muammar Gaddafi's Libya, and Hafez al-Assad's Syria-but always under his father's roof, a Syrian Pan-Arabist man who drags his family along in his pursuit of grandiose dreams for the Arab nation...read more