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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... Misery , and prevents them from appearing in the World to disgrace their Brother , by their Poverty . Valentine was afraid to say any thing that could any ways be shocking to the Person he would never have been ashamed of owning a ...
... Misery ; but to sit down till he was cool , that we might consult together , what was best for us to do . He was so good , in Con- sideration for me , to comply with my Request , and I did all I could to calm his Passion ; and when I ...
... Misery , before my face . I sat up with him the whole Time . I will not shock a Nature so tender as your's , Sir , with the Repetition of what Horrors passed in my Mind , between my then present Sufferings , and the Expectation of ...
Contents
Book I | 3 |
Substantive Variants between the First and Second Editions | 350 |
Emendations | 367 |
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