Joseph Andrews and Shamela(World's Classics)

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• Used

  Paperback
  1981

  $3.25

  Joseph Andrews, Fielding's first novel, and Shamela, a splendidly bawdy parody of Richardson's Pamela, tellingly reveal Fielding's great comic gifts. The great success of Tom Jones owed much to the establishment of the comic form in these early works.

• Used

  Paperback
  1983

  $3.25

• Used

  Hardcover
  1965

  $4.58

• New

  Paperback
  1999

  $11.05

  Shamela is a brilliant parody of Samuel Richardson's Pamela , in which a virtuous servant girl long resists her master's advances and is eventually 'rewarded' with marriage. Fielding's far more spirited and sexually honest heroine, by contrast, merely uses coyness and mock modesty as techniques to catch a rich husband. Joseph Andrews , Fielding's first full-length novel, can also be seen as a response to Richardson, as the lascivious Lady Booby sets out to seduce her comically chaste servant Joseph, (himself in love with the much-put-upon Fanny Goodwill). As in Tom Jones , Fielding takes a huge cast of characters out on the road and exposes them to many colourful and often hilarious adventures.