Joseph Andrews, Volume 2

Joseph Andrews, Volume 2 concludes the 1742 novel by Henry Fielding (1707-1754), the playwright turned novelist who later served as a London magistrate. The full work, The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams, began as a parody of Samuel Richardson’s Pamela: Joseph is Pamela’s brother, a footman who fends off the advances of Lady Booby. Fielding described the book as a comic epic-poem in prose, and this second volume carries Joseph, Fanny Goodwill, and the absent-minded Parson Adams through roadside misadventures to the closing revelations about Joseph’s true parentage. It set the pattern Fielding perfected in Tom Jones and helped shape the English comic novel. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.