JOSEPH ANDREWS AND SHAMELA

by HENRY FIELDING,

ISBN:	9789380143729
Book Name:	JOSEPH ANDREWS AND SHAMELA
Author:	HENRY FIELDING,
Publisher:	HACHETTE BOOK GROUP
Edition:	REPRI
Language:	English
Binding:	Paper Back
Publish Year:	2009
Total Pages:	512
Availablity:	Only 1 Left in Stock

NPR 315.00

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"Fielding's 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. Fielding's 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 - Richardson's Pamela - in which Fielding's 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 Fielding's life and ti

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