During his brief lifetime, Henry Fielding turned his hand to virtually every genre. Along with Tom Jones and the other novels, this set includes works from his prolific playwrighting career, essays on crime and social reform that arose from his experience as a Justice of the Peace in London, miscellaneous poems, articles from the Anti-Jacobite, and other pieces of Whig journalism. Admired by writers and readers alike, Fielding's concern with the injustices of England's social structure and legal system and his fascination with--and delight--in "Human Nature" profoundly influenced the course of the English novel, from his own time well into the era of Dickens and Thackeray. The novels in this collection are illustrated by William Small.