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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... Eyes can see- ) so highly their Superior . As for Cynthia , she knew too much of the World , and was too well bred , to intermeddle officiously in so delicate an Affair . Under these Circumstances were this little Company , when by ...
... Eyes with Crying , to please any humoursome Brat in England . I wish the delicate Puss ' Cynthia mayn't be glad to have any Place to lie in , before she dies . I love to confer Favours ; but the Ingratitude of this World is enough to ...
... Eyes : for it was attended with soft Compunction . It was one of Camilla's strongest Characteristics , that she was ready to blame herself , and not prepared with an Eagerness to justify Errors because they were her own . And now her ...
Contents
Book I | 3 |
Substantive Variants between the First and Second Editions | 350 |
Emendations | 367 |
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