Henry Fielding 
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling [EPUB ebook] 

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling , often known simply as Tom Jones , is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. It is both a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel. It was first published on 28 February 1749 in London, and is among the earliest English prose works to be classified as a novel.