Amelia
Muscle Girl Tales I

Amelia Harris a beautiful rich girl meets a handsome poor boy our William Booth, naturally they fall madly in love. However her mother a well -to- do widow of course doesn't like the match (conflict needed to makes it interesting).She considers Booth, an officer in the British Army a fortune hunter,......more

In Fielding’s earlier novels (Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones), the story ends happily with our hero and heroine getting married, but the reader may well wonder what happened to them after their marriage. For all Fielding’s benevolence, the world in which he places his characters is an unsafe one. Ther......more

Um livro que me divertiu mais que o suposto, pois penso que nesta obra o humor talvez não fosse o objectivo do autor, ou pelo menos não nas situações em que me ri... É que durante a leitura foram tantas as vezes que os personagens desmaiaram de "comoção" que para mim começou mesmo a tornar-se ridícu......more

Fielding's single best book is probably Joseph Andrews but this one is notable because he moved on from satirizing the nascent modern novel form and instead used it to peddle his views on certain social issues of the time. That leads to some rather long dialog passages in which (in the guise of conve......more

More like 3.5 stars. Slightly sloggish, but seems to me to be one of Fielding better works. Tom Jones being his best known novel, Amelia is a strong counter to the direction and characters represented in Tom Jones. While some may react to what could be perceived as misogyny in the book, I found an o......more