Fear of Flying, Penguin 40th Anniversary Edition, foreward by Theresa Rebeck, p. In the end, Isadora must learn to save herself. From grief and betrayal to jealousy and trust, Jong explores the ways in which a marriage unravels. Fielding was an important influence on Erica Jong's novels - Isadora Wing, the uninhibited protagonist of Jong's classic novel, Fear of Flying, has often been compared to Fielding's Tom Jones ("is it her heart that is driving her? Or, like Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, is she allowing a different part of her anatomy to make her decisions?") and she also wrote a novel set in Fielding's era, Fanny: Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones, which explores the question of what if Tom Jones had been a woman more directly (cf. With two marriages and a bestseller in her wake, Isadora nds herself in sunny California and the hedonistic Hollywood. The first edition of Henry Fielding's first play, which opened on February 16th,1728 at The Royal Theatre in Drury Lane. A few spots of wear to the corners, rebacked, contents lightly spotted and toned, trimmed, occasionally touching the headlines, bookplates of Viscount Birkenhead and Louis C. Nineteenth-century calf, gilt, rebacked preserving old spine. A Comedy, As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal, By His Majesty's Servants. Lot 18 FIELDING, HENRY Love in Several Masques.
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