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Fieldings hilarious and disturbing story of two innocents abroad in a world of vice and hypocrisy Joseph, footboy to the Booby household, virtuously rejects the advances of his newly widowed employer Lady Booby, and is then thrown onto the streets. Accompanied by the honest but incompetent Parson Adams, he begins a comic odyssey that brings him face to face with robbery, poverty, sexual viciousness, and all the hypocrisy of fashionable (and not so fashionable) eighteenth-century life. Fieldings first full-length novel, Joseph Andrews is both a comic romance and a witty exposure of affectation and vice. This edition also contains Shamela, a devastating parody of the novel that inspired Joseph Andrews - Richardsons Pamela - in which Fieldings own Pamela is outrageously determined to sell her vartue to the highest bidder. The most comprehensive paperback edition available, with introduction, notes, selected criticism, text summary and chronology of Fieldings life and ti
Fieldings hilarious and disturbing story of two innocents abroad in a world of vice and hypocrisy Joseph, footboy to the Booby household, virtuously rejects the advances of his newly widowed employer Lady Booby, and is then thrown onto the streets. Accompanied by the honest but incompetent Parson Adams, he begins a comic odyssey that brings him face to face with robbery, poverty, sexual viciousness, and all the hypocrisy of fashionable (and not so fashionable) eighteenth-century life. Fieldings first full-length novel, Joseph Andrews is both a comic romance and a witty exposure of affectation and vice. This edition also contains Shamela,...
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