by Henry Fielding · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140433869
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«Joseph Andrews and Shamela» is Henry Fielding's satire volume, published by Penguin Books in paperback (390 pages, in English).
Volume bringing together two texts by Henry Fielding: in «Joseph Andrews», a servant rejects Lady Booby and travels with Fanny Goodwill and Parson Adams amid robberies and misunderstandings; in «Shamela», a parody of Richardson's «Pamela», the heroine feigns modesty to catch a rich husband. Satire of eighteenth-century English society.
Volume in the Penguin Classics series, edited by Judith Hawley, with introduction, notes, chronology and further reading suggestions.
For readers of English classics and literature students interested in social satire and the origins of the eighteenth-century novel.
Henry Fielding was an English writer and judge known for the use of humour and satire in his works. His famous novels include Shamela (1741), Joseph Andrews (1742), The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749) and Amelia (1751). Along with Samuel Richardson, Fielding is seen as the founder of the traditional English novel. As well as being a novelist, Fielding was also a playwright, known for his satirical comedies The Author's Farce (1730), Tom Thumb (1730), The Letter Writers (1731) and The Tragedy of Tragedies (1731). He also played an important role in the history of law enforcement in the United Kingdom, using his authority as a magistrate to found the Bow Street Runners, London's first professional police force.
