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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... Nature as high as they can ; that is , to prove Men are ca- pable , if it was not their own fault , of arriving to a great degree of Perfection , which they heartily consent every one should believe they themselves have done . The ...
... Nature had given him none of that Melancholy , which Physicians call by the Name of the Black Blood , 32 which makes him , to please himself , look on every thing on the best side . I can't say ( continued he ) that Gentleman is ill ...
... Nature , or his Station in Life , with a sincere Regard to the Interest and Pleasure of the whole . - Let every Man , instead of bursting with Rage - and Envy - at the Advantages of Nature , or Station , another has over him , extend ...
Contents
Book I | 3 |
Substantive Variants between the First and Second Editions | 350 |
Emendations | 367 |
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