The Adventures of David Simple: Containing an Account of His Travels Through the Cities of London and Westminster, in the Search of a Real Friend ; And, The Adventures of David Simple, Volume the Last : in which His History is ConcludedUniversity Press of Kentucky, 1998 - 399 pages Sarah Fielding (1710-1768), the author of five novels, a children's story, an imaginative historical biography, a critical treatise on Clarissa, and a translation from the Greek of Xenophon, is among the most versatile and interesting eighteenth-century women writers. The Adventures of David Simple (1744), Fielding's first and most celebrated novel, went through many English editions -- including a second edition heavily revised by her brother Henry -- and was translated into German and French. The guileless hero, having been cheated by his hypocritical younger brother, sets out to find a "real friend". In recounting David's search, the novel depicts the derision with which almost everyone treats his sentimental attitudes to human nature. An important secondary character acts as a mouthpiece for some provocative feminist ideas. This edition makes the original text of the novel available for the first time since 1744. It also reproduces Fielding's much darker sequel, Volume the Last (1753), in which a string of disasters befalls David and his family. |
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... Book I 1 Book II 61 Book III 115 Book IV 171 The Adventures of David Simple , Volume the Last Book V 239 Book VI 263 Book VII 309 Appendices I : Henry Fielding's Preface to the Second Edition ( 1744 ) 343 II : Substantive Variants ...
... Book I , n . 69 ) , or of a jackdaw for her jay ( see Book II , n . 44 ) , needlessly changing the terms of her rhetoric in both cases . Perhaps the most striking example of this kind of revision concerns a passage in which Cynthia ...
... BOOK II Ꭰ Dav CHAPTER I Which is writ only with a View to instruct our Readers , that Whist is a Game very much in ... Book , and he would soon be invited to more Routs than he would be able to go to . " 4 “ And , pray Sir , said David ...
Contents
Book I | 3 |
Substantive Variants between the First and Second Editions | 350 |
Emendations | 367 |
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