Joseph Andrews resenting Beau Didapper's insult - from a drawing by F. Nash Joseph Andrews, or The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams, was the first published full-length novel of the English author and magistrate Henry Fielding, and indeed one of the first novels in the English language. Published in 1742 and defined by Fielding as a omic romance? it is the story of a good-natured footman's adventures on the road home from London with his friend and mentor, the absent-minded parson Abraham Adams. 固opFoto