Fielding\'s comic masterpiece of 1749 was immediately attacked as `A motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery\'.
Indeed, his populous novel overflows with a marvellous assortment of prudes, whores, libertines, bumpkins, misanthropes, hypocrites,.
Fielding\'s comic masterpiece of 1749 was immediately attacked as `A motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery\'