Reproduction of the original: The Works of Henry Fielding by George Saintsbury

A disastrous error on the field sends five lives into a tailspin in this widely acclaimed tale about love, life, and baseball, praised by the New York Times as "wonderful...a novel that is every bit as entertaining as it is affecting." Named one of the year's best books by the New York Times, NPR, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Bloomberg, Kansas City Star, Richmond Times-Dispatch, and Time Out New York. At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended. Henry's fight against self-doubt threatens to ruin his future. College president Guert Affenlight, a longtime bachelor, has fallen unexpectedly and helplessly in love. Owen Dunne, Henry's gay roommate and teammate, becomes caught up in a dangerous affair. Mike Schwartz, the Harpooners' team captain and Henry's best friend, realizes he has guided Henry's career at the expense of his own. And Pella Affenlight, Guert's daughter, returns to Westish after escaping an ill-fated marriage, determined to start a new life. As the season counts down to its climactic final game, these five are forced to confront their deepest hopes, anxieties, and secrets. In the process they forge new bonds, and help one another find their true paths. Written with boundless intelligence and filled with the tenderness of youth, The Art of Fielding is an expansive, warmhearted novel about ambition and its limits, about family and friendship and love, and about commitment -- to oneself and to others. "First novels this complete and consuming come along very, very seldom." --Jonathan Franzen

This comprehensive eBook presents the complete fictional works of Henry Fielding, with numerous illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Fielding's life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * ALL the novels, with individual contents tables * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * The complete 26 extant plays, for the first time in digital publishing history * Excellent formatting of the texts * Famous works such as TOM JONES are illustrated with their original artwork * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry * Includes a thorough selection of Fielding's non-fiction * Features two biographies, including Sir Walter's Scott's scarce study of the author's life - explore Fielding's literary world * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles Contents: The Novels An Apology for the Life of Mrs Shamela Andrews The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling The History of Amelia The Plays Love in Several Masques The Temple Beau The Author's Farce; And the Pleasures of the Town Tom Thumb: A Tragedy Rape Upon Rape The Letter-Writers The Grub Street Opera The Lottery The Modern Husband The Covent-Garden Tragedy The Old Debauchees The Mock Doctor The Miser The Intriguing Chambermaid Don Quixote in England An Old Man Taught Wisdom The Universal Gallant, or the Different Husbands Pasquin, a Dramatick Satire on the Times Tumble-down Dick Eurydice, a Farce The Historical Register for the Year 1736 Eurydice Hiss'd Miss Lucy in Town Plutus, the God of Riches The Wedding-Day The Fathers, or the Good-Natur'd Man The Poems List of Poems in Chronological Order List of Poems in Alphabetical Order The Non-Fiction The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon A Journey from This World to the Next An Essay on Conversation. An Essay on the Knowledge of the Characters of Men An Essay on Nothing The Opposition: A Vision The True Patriot A Selection from the Covent-Garden Journal The Female Husband Familiar Letters. The Biographies The Life of Henry Fielding by Sir Walter Scott Fielding by Austin Dobson Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles

When it was determined to extend the present edition of Fielding, not merely by the addition of Jonathan Wild to the three universally popular novels, but by two volumes of Miscellanies, there could be no doubt about at least one of the contents of these latter. The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, if it does not rank in my estimation anywhere near to Jonathan Wild as an example of our author’s genius, is an invaluable and delightful document for his character and memory. It is indeed, as has been pointed out in the General Introduction to this series, our main source of indisputable information as to Fielding dans son naturel, and its value, so far as it goes, is of the very highest. The gentle and unaffected stoicism which the author displays under a disease which he knew well was probably, if not certainly, mortal, and which, whether mortal or not, must cause him much actual pain and discomfort of a kind more intolerable than pain itself; his affectionate care for his family; even little personal touches, less admirable, but hardly less pleasant than these, showing an Englishman’s dislike to be “done” and an Englishman’s determination to be treated with proper respect, are scarcely less noticeable and important on the biographical side than the unimpaired brilliancy of his satiric and yet kindly observation of life and character is on the side of literature. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

As a writer, businessman and magistrate, Henry Fielding was in a singular position to textualize eighteenth-century English cultural conditions and materially to author the text of his society. Not only did he extol employment, he co-owned an employment agency. Not only did he commit fictional criminals to paper, he committed actual criminals to prison. And he could and did commit actual criminals to prison and paper simultaneously. Henry Fielding at Work examines the intersections of Fielding's practice as magistrate, businessman, and writer, and explores the ways Fielding's experience in those capacities affected the conception, form and articulation of his final literary works.