A handsome, virtuous footman fends off his mistress and rambles home with Parson Adams. Fielding's comic novel that began as a parody of Pamela.
Books mentioned in Joseph Andrews (2)
Philotas by Philip Frowde: “what could Booth or Betterton have made of such horrible stuff as Fenton's Mariamne, Frowd's Philotas, or Mallet's Eurydice”
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes: “is not such a book as that which records the achievements of the renowned Don Quixote more worthy the name of a history than even Mariana's”