Part 1：Introduction

The life of Henry Fielding

Literary background to Tom Jones

A note on the text

Part 2：Summaries

A general summary

Detailed summaries

General glossary

Part 3：Commentary

Fielding's purpose

Fielding's morality:'good nature'

Eighteenth-century politics

Fielding's debt to the classics

Tom Jones and the theatre

Part 4：Hints for study

Points for detailed study

Selecting quotations and answering questions on Tom Jones

Specimen questions and answers

Part 5：Suggestions for further reading

The author of these notes