Joseph Andrews/Shamela

Name: Joseph Andrews/Shamela
Brand: Penguin Publishing Group
SKU: 9780140433869-G
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By Henry Fielding

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'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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Product details

Binding:

Paperback

Edition:

1

Number of Pages:

432

Release Date:

1999-03-25

Publication Date:

1999-11-01

Publisher:

Penguin Publishing Group

Languages:

Original: English

ISBN10:

0140433864

ISBN13:

9780140433869

GPSR Manufacturer Reference:

[email protected]

Weight:

324 g

Height:

128 cm

Width:

198 cm

Thickness:

26 cm

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