JOSEPH ANDREWS VOL. 1 ***

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THE WORKS OF HENRY FIELDING

EDITED BY GEORGE SAINTSBURY

IN TWELVE VOLUMES

VOL. I.

JOSEPH ANDREWS

VOL. I.

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION.

PREFACE.

BOOK I.

CHAPTER I. _Of writing lives in general, and particularly of Pamela, with a word by the bye of Colley Cibber and others_

CHAPTER II. _Of Mr Joseph Andrews, his birth, parentage, education, and great endowments, with a word or two concerning ancestors_

CHAPTER III. _Of Mr Abraham Adams the curate, Mrs Slipslop the chambermaid, and others_

CHAPTER IV. _What happened after their journey to London_

CHAPTER V. _The death of Sir Thomas Booby, with the affectionate and mournful behaviour of his widow, and the great purity of Joseph Andrews_

CHAPTER VI. _How Joseph Andrews writ a letter to his sister Pamela_

CHAPTER VII. _Sayings of wise men. A dialogue between the lady and her maid; and a panegyric, or rather satire, on the passion of love, in the sublime style_

CHAPTER VIII. _In which, after some very fine writing, the history goes on, and relates the interview between the lady and Joseph; where the latter hath set an example which we despair of seeing followed by his sex in this vicious age_

CHAPTER IX. _What passed between the lady and Mrs Slipslop; in which we prophesy there are some strokes which every one will not truly comprehend at the first reading_

CHAPTER X. _Joseph writes another letter; his transactions with Mr Peter Pounce, &c., with his departure from Lady Booby_

CHAPTER XI. _Of several new matters not expected_

CHAPTER XII. _Containing many surprizing adventures which Joseph Andrews met with on the road, scarce credible to those who have never travelled in a stage-coach_

CHAPTER XIII. _What happened to Joseph during his sickness at the inn, with the curious discourse between him and Mr Barnabas, the parson of the parish_

CHAPTER XIV. _Being very full of adventures which succeeded each other at the inn_

CHAPTER XV. _Showing how Mrs Tow-wouse was a little mollified; and how officious Mr Barnabas and the surgeon were to prosecute the thief: with a dissertation accounting for their zeal, and that of many other persons not mentioned in this history_

CHAPTER XVI. _The escape of the thief. Mr Adams's disappointment. The arrival of two very extraordinary personages, and the introduction of parson Adams to parson Barnabas_

CHAPTER XVII. _A pleasant discourse between the two parsons and the bookseller, which was broke off by an unlucky accident happening in the inn, which produced a dialogue between Mrs Tow-wouse and her maid of no gentle kind._

CHAPTER XVIII. _The history of Betty the chambermaid, and an account of what occasioned the violent scene in the preceding chapter_

BOOK II.

CHAPTER I. _Of Divisions in Authors_

CHAPTER II. _A surprizing instance of Mr Adams's short memory, with the unfortunate consequences which it brought on Joseph_

CHAPTER III. _T...

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