Joseph Andrews

Penguin English Library, United Kingdom, 1984. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Size: 12mo (small). 343 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Pages are lightly toned throughout. Softcover where plastic contact has been applied. Edges browned slightly. The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post.. A reaction against Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740). Joseph Andrews begins as a burlesque of Pamela, but the parodic intention of the novel soon becomes secondary, and it develops into a masterpiece of sustained irony and social criticism. At its center is Parson Adams, one of the great comic figures of literature. Joseph and the parson have a series of adventures, in all of which they manage to expose the hypocrisy and affectation of others through their own innocence and guilelessness. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; Historical fiction; England; 18th century; ISBN: 0140431144. ISBN/EAN: 9780140431148. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 10232. . 9780140431148