Errors and Reconciliations

the long version

"Henry Fielding is most well known for his monumental novel Tom Jones. Though it is not necessarily common knowledge, he started his literary career as a dramatist and eventually transitioned to writing novels. Though vastly different in their approaches and subjects, there is a common thread in the works that spanned his career: marriage. Errors and reconciliations: marriage in the plays and novels of Henry Fielding explores this theme, focussing on Fielding's fascination with matrimony and the ever-present paradoxical nature of marriage in the first half of the eighteenth century as a state easily attained but nearly impossible to escape"--Publisher's description.