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Title: Joseph Andrews and Shamela (Oxford World' Classics) by Henry Fielding, Douglas Brook-Davies, Martin C. Ballestin, Douglas Brooks-Davies ISBN: 0192834282 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: February, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4

Rating: 4
Summary: Joseph Andrews and Shamela
Comment: Romping good fun and sharply satirical. Fielding has none of the puritanical prejudices of his contemporary and rival Samuel Richardson.Rather he gives a graphic, humourous and insightful glimpse of eighteenth century rural shannanigans. Both stories are to some extent a response to Richardson's goodie goodie novel Pamela or Virtue Rewarded, Shamela in fact so much so- mimicking then epistulatory narrative and burlesquing the characters and style of the original novel- that you'll miss most of the jokes unless you've read Richardson first. Jospeh Andrews is far more substantial and rewarding containing the full range both of Fielding's humour and social concerns. Vividly presenting the self-serving cynicism of English society his particular speciality lies in puncturing pomposity by comically abrupt opposistions between what his characters preach and practise. Detached, sarcastic and well-read Fielding somehow manages to mix slapstick with Homer, blend eupheimism with innuendo and mangle anyone that he has a grudge against. A novel of the road- if you liked this, you'll love Tom Jones.

Rating: 4
Summary: Funny!
Comment: I loved this book. The adventures of Joseph Andrews are colourful and riotous. Highly recommended! Shamela, however, is a lesser work. It is a bawdy caricature of Samuel Richardson's "Pamela". Amusing, but slight.