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: I have been reading an old guidebook to novel-writing: Structuring Your Novel, by Meredith and Fitzgerald (1972). Never mind how I'm doing with my novel! : Meredith and Fitzgerald mention, of course, many novels as examples of this or that point in their book. They place particular emphasis on seven novels, however, as representative of the novelist's craft, and use them extensively for illustrative material. These seven are: The Pearl, The Gs of Wrath, To Kill A Mockingbird, Madame Bovary, From Here to Eternity, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, and Tom Jones. : Why Tom Jones? Messrs. Meredith and Fitzgerald say that they included "Tom Jones by Henry Fielding because it has one of the best plot structures of any novel ever written; ..." (p. viii) : I read Tom Jones many years ago, after seeing the movie with Albert Finney and Susannah York. I have started to re-read the novel, and I have been trying to keep one eye on the plot while enjoying the myriad diversions and entertainments Mr. Fielding offers the reader. I think Fielding is just masterful at cloaking the bones of the plot under gorgeous fabric.

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