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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... Conversation had been chiefly amongst a lower Degree of Men . The Company in which Mr. Orgueil delighted , were People who were bred to genteel Professions , and who were neither to be reckoned in very high , nor in low Life . They went ...
... Conversation , how is it possible I should come at their Sentiments , or enter into their Characters . " " Indeed , Sir , replied the other , you was never more mistaken in your Life , for People's Minds , and the Bent of their ...
... Conversation to them- selves the first Stage , for the Atheist and Butterfly both slept all the way till they came to breakfast . There , with Hands shaking in such a manner , that it was with difficulty they could carry the Liquor to ...
Contents
Book I | 3 |
Substantive Variants between the First and Second Editions | 350 |
Emendations | 367 |
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