Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Henry Fielding — Context and Discussion

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An index compiled by David Widger linking to Project Gutenberg editions of Henry Fielding's major works, including Tom Jones, Amelia, Joseph Andrews, and lesser-known pieces like The Lovers Assistant. The table of contents reveals Fielding's characteristic chapter titles and structural devices.

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INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG WORKS OF HENRY FIELDING

Compiled by David Widger

## A VOYAGE TO LISBON

## THIS WORLD TO THE NEXT

## THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES

## JOSEPH ANDREWS VOL. 1

## JOSEPH ANDREWS, VOL. 2

APOLOGY FOR LIFE OF MRS. SHAMELA ANDREWS

THE OLD DEBAUCHEES. A COMEDY

TABLES OF CONTENTS OF VOLUMES

THE JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO LISBON

INTRODUCTION TO SEVERAL WORKS

THE JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO LISBON

DEDICATION TO THE PUBLIC

A JOURNEY FROM THIS WORLD TO THE NEXT

THE HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF THE LATE MR. JONATHAN WILD THE GREAT The Works Of Henry Fielding — Volume Ten By Henry Fielding With the Author's Preface, and an Introduction by G. H. Maynadier

THE LIFE OF THE LATE MR. JONATHAN WILD

CHAPTER ONE — SHEWING THE WHOLESOME USES DRAWN FROM RECORDING THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THOSE WONDERFUL PRODUCTIONS OF NATURE CALLED GREAT MEN.

CHAPTER TWO — GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF AS MANY OF OUR HERO'S ANCESTORS AS CAN BE GATHERED OUT OF THE RUBBISH OF ANTIQUITY, WHICH HATH BEEN CAREFULLY SIFTED FOR THAT PURPOSE.

CHAPTER THREE — THE BIRTH, PARENTAGE, AND EDUCATION OF MR. JONATHAN WILD THE GREAT.

CHAPTER FOUR — MR. WILD'S FIRST ENTRANCE INTO THE WORLD. HIS ACQUAINTANCE WITH COUNT LA RUSE.

CHAPTER FIVE — A DIALOGUE BETWEEN YOUNG MASTER WILD AND COUNT LA RUSE, WHICH, HAVING EXTENDED TO THE REJOINDER, HAD A VERY QUIET, EASY, AND NATURAL CONCLUSION.

CHAPTER SIX — FURTHER CONFERENCES BETWEEN THE COUNT AND MASTER WILD, WITH OTHER MATTERS OF THE GREAT KIND.

CHAPTER SEVEN — MASTER WILD SETS OUT ON HIS TRAVELS, AND RETURNS HOME AGAIN. A VERY SHORT CHAPTER, CONTAINING INFINITELY MORE TIME AND LESS MATTER THAN ANY OTHER IN THE WHOLE STORY.

CHAPTER EIGHT — AN ADVENTURE WHERE WILD, IN THE DIVISION OF THE BOOTY, EXHIBITS AN ASTONISHING INSTANCE OF GREATNESS.

CHAPTER NINE — WILD PAYS A VISIT TO MISS LETITIA SNAP. A DESCRIPTION OF THAT LOVELY YOUNG CREATURE, AND THE SUCCESSLESS ISSUE OF MR. WILD'S ADDRESSES.

CHAPTER TEN — A DISCOVERY OF SOME MATTERS CONCERNING THE CHASTE LAETITIA WHICH MUST WONDERFULLY SURPRISE, AND PERHAPS AFFECT, OUR READER.

CHAPTER ELEVEN — CONTAINING AS NOTABLE INSTANCES OF HUMAN GREATNESS AS ARE TO BE MET WITH IN ANCIENT OR MODERN HISTORY. CONCLUDING WITH SOME WHOLESOME HINTS TO THE GAY PART OF MANKIND.

CHAPTER TWELVE — OTHER PARTICULARS RELATING TO MISS TISHY, WHICH PERHAPS MAY NOT GREATLY SURPRISE AFTER THE FORMER. THE DESCRIPTION OF A VERY FINE GENTLEMAN. AND A DIALOGUE BETWEEN WILD AND THE COUNT, IN WHICH PUBLIC VIRTUE IS JUST HINTED AT, WITH, ETC.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN — A CHAPTER OF WHICH WE ARE EXTREMELY VAIN, AND WHICH INDEED WE LOOK ON AS OUR CHEF-D'OEUVRE; CONTAINING A WONDERFUL STORY CONCERNING THE DEVIL, AND AS NICE A SCENE OF HONOUR AS EVER HAPPENED.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN — IN WHICH THE HISTORY OF GREATNESS IS CONTINUED.

CHAPTER ONE — CHARACTERS OF SILLY PEOPLE, WITH THE PROPER USES FOR WHICH SUCH ARE DESIGNED.

CHAPTER TWO — GREAT EXAMPLES OF GREATNESS IN WILD, SHEWN AS WELL BY HIS BEHAVIOUR TO BAGSHOT AS IN A SCHEME LAID, FIRST, TO IMPOSE ON HEARTFREE BY MEANS OF THE COUNT, AND THEN TO CHEAT THE COUNT OF THE BOOTY.

CHAPTER THREE — CONTAINING SCENES OF SOFTNESS, LOVE, AND HONOUR ALL IN THE GREAT STILE.

CHAPTER FOUR — IN WHICH WILD, AFTER MANY FRUITLESS ENDEAVOURS TO DISCOVER HIS FRIEND, MORALISES ON HIS MISFORTUNE IN A SPEECH, WHICH MAY BE OF USE (IF RIGHTLY UNDERSTOOD) TO SOME OTHER CONSIDERABLE SPEECH- MAKERS.

CHAPTER FIVE — CONTAINING MANY SURPRISING ADVENTURES, WHICH OUR HERO, WITH GREAT GREATNESS, ACHIEVED.

CHAPTER SIX — OF HATS.

CHAPTER SEVEN — SHEWING THE CONSEQUENCE WHICH ATTENDED HEARTFREE'S ADVENTURES WITH WILD; ALL NATURAL AND COMMON ENOUGH TO LITTLE WRETCHES WHO DEAL WITH GREAT MEN; TOGETHER WITH SOME PRECEDENTS OF LETTERS, BEING THE DIFFERENT METHODS OF ANSWERING A DUN.

CHAPTER EIGHT — IN WHICH OUR HERO CARRIES GREATNESS TO AN IMMODERATE HEIGHT.

CHAPTER NINE — MORE GREATNESS IN WILD. A LOW SCENE BETWEEN MRS. HEARTFREE AND HER CHILDREN, AND A SCHEME OF OUR HERO WORTHY THE HIGHEST ADMIRATION, AND EVEN ASTONISHMENT.

CHAPTER TEN — SEA-ADVENTURES VERY NEW AND SURPRISING.

CHAPTER ELEVEN — THE GREAT AND WONDERFUL BEHAVIOUR OF OUR HERO IN THE BOAT.

CHAPTER TWELVE — THE STRANGE AND YET NATURAL ESCAPE OF OUR HERO.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN — THE CONCLUSION OF THE BOAT ADVENTURE, AND THE END OF THE SECOND BOOK.

CHAPTER ONE — THE LOW AND PITIFUL BEHAVIOUR OF HEARTFREE; AND THE FOOLISH CONDUCT OF HIS APPRENTICE.

CHAPTER TWO — A SOLILOQUY OF HEARTFREE'S, FULL OF LOW AND BASE IDEAS, WITHOUT A SYLLABLE OF GREATNESS.

CHAPTER THREE — WHEREIN OUR HERO PROCEEDS IN THE ROAD TO GREATNESS.

CHAPTER FOUR — IN WHICH A YOUNG HERO, OF WONDERFUL GOOD PROMISE, MAKES HIS FIRST APPEARANCE, WITH MANY OTHER GREAT MATTERS.

CHAPTER FIVE — MORE AND MORE GREATNESS, UNPARALLELED IN HISTORY OR ROMANCE.

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This index, compiled by David Widger, serves as a finding aid for the Project Gutenberg editions of Henry Fielding's works. It lists titles such as The History of Tom Jones, Amelia, Joseph Andrews, and less familiar pieces like The Lovers Assistant, or, New Art of Love. The table of contents excerpts show Fielding's habit of writing playful, meta-chapter headings—for instance, “Containing a very surprizing adventure indeed” and “An apology for all heroes who have good stomachs.” These headings hint at the author's ironic voice and his tendency to address the reader directly.

Catalog Subjects vs. Actual Content

The catalog lists only “Indexes” as a subject, with secondary tags “general-literature” and “reference-general.” While the work is indeed an index, the excerpts reveal that it is far more than a bare list. The table of contents for A Journey from This World to the Next includes chapter titles like “The author dies, meets with Mercury” and “The proceedings of Judge Minos at the gate of Elysium,” indicating a satirical, fictional narrative. Similarly, Tom Jones chapters contain “A crust for the critics” and “Showing what is to be deemed plagiarism.” The index thus points to literary works rich in parody and authorial commentary, not merely reference entries.

Fielding's Structural Signatures

The excerpts display Fielding's characteristic use of book and chapter divisions that comment on the action. In Tom Jones, Book X is titled “IN WHICH THE HISTORY GOES FORWARD ABOUT TWELVE HOURS,” while Book XI covers “ABOUT THREE DAYS.” Such precise temporal markers are typical of Fielding's mock-heroic style. The chapter headings often promise instruction: “Containing instructions very necessary to be perused by modern critics” or “Containing infallible nostrums for procuring universal disesteem and hatred.” These headings do not merely summarize events but engage in meta-literary play, a feature consistent across the listed works.

The Editor's Role and the Index's Purpose

David Widger, the editor, produced this index as part of Project Gutenberg's volunteer effort. The excerpts include standard Project Gutenberg boilerplate about donations and the Literary Archive Foundation, but the core of the work is a clickable table of contents linking to individual ebooks. The index lists not only major novels but also plays like The Old Debauchees and a poem, The Lovers Assistant. This suggests Widger aimed to provide access to Fielding's full range, not just his most famous novels. The inclusion of “APOLOGY FOR LIFE OF MRS. SHAMELA ANDREWS” indicates that even Fielding's lesser-known satires are covered.

Readers using this index should note that the chapter headings reproduced here are often the most entertaining part of Fielding's works—they reward browsing. The index itself does not contain the full texts, but it offers a structured entry point into Fielding's oeuvre as available on Project Gutenberg. For those interested in Fielding's narrative techniques, comparing the headings across different titles reveals his consistent use of irony and direct address.

I remember tracing Fielding’s chapter titles with a pencil, the way he winks at the reader before the tale turns. It felt like a handshake across centuries. A similar quiet settled over me once with Synonyms and antonyms — Reading Notes, where every word seemed to hold its own mirror, asking me to linger rather than hurry.