496 pages
English language
Published June 20, 1987 by Norton.
Joseph Andrews with Shamela and Related Writings
authoritative texts, backgrounds and sources, criticism A Norton critical edition
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The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams, was the first full-length novel by the English author Henry Fielding to be published and among the early novels in the English language. Appearing in 1742 and defined by Fielding as a "comic epic poem in prose", it tells of a good-natured footman's adventures on the road home from London with his friend and mentor, the absent-minded parson Abraham Adams.
Subjects
- Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754
- Humorous stories, English -- History and criticism
- Young men -- Fiction
- Domestics -- Fiction
- England -- Fiction