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DOVER THRIFT EDITIONS

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EDITOR OF THIS VOLUME: JOHN BERSETH

Copyright

Copyright © 2001 by Dover Publications, Inc.

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Bibliographical Note

This Dover edition, first published in 2001, is an unabridged republication of a standard edition of the work which was originally published in London in 1742 under the title The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and His Friend Mr. Adams, Written in Imitation of the Manner of Cervantes.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Fielding, Henry, 1707–1754.

[History of the adventures of Joseph Andrews] Jo

seph Andrews / Henry Fielding.

p. cm.

9780486110820

1. England—Fiction. 2. Domestics—Fiction. 3. Young men—Fiction. 4. Male friendship—Fiction. 5. Social classes—Fiction. 6. Clergy—Fiction. 1. Title.

PR3454 J65 2001

823’.5–dc21

2001028000

Manufactured in the United States of America
Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501

Note

HENRY FIELDING (1707–1754), son of a general and an heiress, was born in Somerset and grew up in Dorset, both in the west of England. He was educated at Eton College, then moved to London, where his play Love and Several Masques was produced at the Drury Lane Theatre in 1728. A restless, adventurous youth, he went to the Netherlands to study at the University of Leiden, but was forced to return to London in 1730 after his allowance was cut off. Over the next seven years twenty-five of his plays were produced, many satirizing contemporary politicians and other public figures. Fielding’s work, facile and witty, was popular with audiences, especially the farce Tom Thumb (1730). But officialdom held a dim view of the young author, and in 1737 one of his targets, Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole, presided over passage of the Licensing Act.