Two Everyman Classics in One Volume.
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 robber, 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 affection 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.
This is the most comprehensive edition available, with introduction, notes, selected criticism, text summary and chronology of Fielding's life and times.
