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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. _The opinion of two lawyers concerning the same gentleman, with Mr Adams's inquiry into the religion of his host_

  CHAPTER IV. _The history of Leonora, or the unfortunate jilt_

  CHAPTER V. _A dreadful quarrel which happened at the inn where the company dined, with its bloody consequences to Mr Adams_

  CHAPTER VI. _Conclusion of the unfortunate jilt_

  CHAPTER VII. _A very short chapter, in which parson Adams went a great way_

  CHAPTER VIII. _A notable dissertation by Mr Abraham Adams; wherein that gentleman appears in a political light_

  CHAPTER IX. _In which the gentleman discants on bravery and heroic virtue, till an unlucky accident puts an end to the discourse_

  CHAPTER X. _Giving an account of the strange catastrophe of the preceding adventure, which drew poor Adams into fresh calamities; and who the woman was who owed the preservation of her chastity to his victorious arm_

  CHAPTER XI. _What happened to them while before the justice. A chapter very full of learning_

  CHAPTER XII. _A very delightful adventure, as well to the persons concerned as to the good-natured reader_

  CHAPTER XIII. _A dissertation concerning high people and low people, with Mrs Slipslop's departure in no very good temper of mind, and the evil plight in which she left Adams and his company_

  LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

  PORTRAIT OF FIELDING, FROM BUST IN THE SHIRE HALL, TAUNTON "JOSEPH, I AM SORRY TO HEAR SUCH COMPLAINTS AGAINST YOU" THE HOSTLER PRESENTED HIM A BILL JOSEPH THANKED HER ON HIS KNEES