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joseph andrews and shamela
by fielding, henry
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0192815504
- ISBN 13
- 9780192815507
- Seller
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RIVER FALLS, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Trade Paperback. Oxford University Press 1980. Unless Listed in this decription, VG or Better.
Synopsis
‘Kissing, Joseph, is but a Prologue to a Play. Can I believe a young Fellow of your Age and Complexion will be content with Kissing?’ Joseph Andrews , Henry Fielding’s first full-length novel, depicts the many colourful and often hilarious adventures of a comically chaste servant. After being sacked for spurning the lascivious Lady Booby, Joseph takes to the road, accompanied by his beloved Fanny Goodwill, a much-put-upon foundling girl, and Parson Adams, a man often duped and humiliated, but still a model of Christian charity. In the boisterous short tale Shamela , a brilliant parody of Richardson’s Pamela , the spirited and sexually honest heroine uses coyness and mock modesty to catch herself a rich husband. Together these works anticipate Fielding’s great comic epic Tom Jones , with their amiable good humour and pointed social satire. Judith Hawley’s introduction compares the works of Fielding and Richardson, and discusses sex and class relations, and the literary and political world of the time. This volume also includes a chronology and suggestions for further reading.
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- Bookseller
- Sixth Chamber Used Books/Fox Den Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 561341
- Title
- joseph andrews and shamela
- Author
- fielding, henry
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0192815504
- ISBN 13
- 9780192815507
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Place of Publication
- Cary, North Carolina, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- June 23, 1988
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