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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... Brother . Thus these two Brothers lived together at School in the most perfect Unity and Friendship , till the eldest was Seventeen ; at which time , their Fa- ther being taken violently ill of a Fever , occasioned their being sent for ...
... Brother's Love ; and as it was his Nature to be easily contented , he was very little Trouble or Expence in the Family . Daniel hugg'd himself in his Ingenuity , and in the Thoughts how impossible it would have been for him to have been ...
... Brother was far from being passionate for Trifles , yet that his whole Frame would be so shaken by an ill Usage from him , he would not be able to command himself : And resolved therefore to take this Opportunity of aggravating his ...
Contents
Book I | 3 |
Substantive Variants between the First and Second Editions | 350 |
Emendations | 367 |
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