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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... imagine by what Accident he had discovered it , for he would defy any one to say he had ever dropped the least Complaint , notwithstanding all the Misery he had suffered ; nor could even the daily , nay hourly Sight of a Person he then ...
... imagine what you will , unless you have experienced what it is to be both a sincere and successful Lover , you never can imagine any thing equal to what David felt . The Conversation between him and Camilla was of the delicatest ...
... imagine ] once imagined He sat ... , blessing ] On such Occasions he sat all the while wondering and admiring at her Goodness , and blessing interceed ] interceded think ] imagine Ghost ; ... ; his Face ] Ghost ; and that not in the ...
Contents
Book I | 3 |
Substantive Variants between the First and Second Editions | 350 |
Emendations | 367 |
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