Book: Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding

Satire, parody, picaresque. I had to read this for a course on Humor in Classic 18c Literature. I remember I found it fascinating; there's just never enough time nowadays to reread everything. Paperback, 1986. Still very good used/vintage condition. Minor wear on cover and on corners, remainder mark on edge (see pics). Pages themselves have no rips, no scribbles, no dog-ears. I'll include the Cliffs Notes (great condition, no marks or tears); if you don't want that booklet just let me know and I'll donate it to our local library. "As Joseph and Parson Adams wander the land they get in and out of trouble with some of the great comic figures of literature: Mr. Barnabas, Lady Booby, Mrs. Slipslop, Mr. Tow-wouse, Fanny. Written in 1742 as a reaction against Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela, it begins as a burlesque of that novel but the parody soon becomes secondary, and it develops into a masterpiece of sustained irony and social criticism of the time. Through their own innocence and guilelessness, Joseph and the parson expose the hypocrisy and fakeness of others. A fusion of two competing aesthetics of 18th-century literature: the mock-heroic neoclassical approach of such writers as Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, and the popular, domestic prose fiction of novelists such as Daniel Defoe and Samuel Richardson."