Never watching a classic period drama was more amusing. This one was brilliant. It was broadcast in 1997 first time and it is now available on DVD at a very cheap price. It is an excellent BBC 6-hours' costume drama. I simply loved watching it at the weekend. I had added it to my TBS list after watching Faulks on Fiction in April.
The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (1749) is Henry Fielding's masterpiece, which I had to read - well, to study - for my English Literature Course at University when I was in my first year. I must admit I didn't have as much fun while reading it at that time. But we grow-up, don't we? I must reread it and give Fielding's great humour another chance. It is also one of the 18th century novels I have very rarely used in my lessons. I have to correct that too: Fielding must be read. He is too clever. Do you remember the scene from "Becoming Jane" in which a fictional Tom Lefroy (James MacAvoy) suggests a fictional Jane Austen (Anne Hathaway) to read a book of an extraordinary young man to widen her horizons and write fiction with as much knowledge of the world as a masculine writer? He is in fact suggesting her to read Fielding's Tom Jones.