Never read any Fielding. This was actually quite fun; a take on ‘Pamela’ (Joseph is her disappeared brother).
A big rumbustious (is that word?) novel, with lots of discoveries (lost brothers, children) right at the end.
Andrews is in fact a relatively minor character, a handsome young servant lusted after by all the coarser women (and maybe the chaste one as well) in the book. The central figure is Parson Abraham Adams, a Don Quixote figure. There is some lovely humour: the first chapter of Book 2 is devoted entirely to why authors divide books into ‘Books’. I like that.
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