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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... Hand : He at first chose to compliment her on that Part which was most defective , from a Knowledge of Nature , that nothing pleases so much , as to find Blemishes turn'd into Beau- ties . He persisted in this so long , that at last he ...
... Hand , and sighing said , ' Oh ! my Son , I have ruined you and the best of Wives at once , you know the long and faithful Friendship I have had for Monsieur - and the great Obligations I owe to him . After you was separated from me ...
... hand , ( tho ' her Mind had been totally void of Pride - of which she had very little — or of Modesty — of which she was the most exact Pattern— ) could not have begun to excuse a Crime of which she was entirely innocent , to a Man who ...
Contents
Book I | 3 |
Substantive Variants between the First and Second Editions | 350 |
Emendations | 367 |
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