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PENGUIN CLASSICS JOSEPH ANDREWS & SHAMELA - H...

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.

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