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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... meet with a real Friend . From the time he lived with his Brother , he had led so recluse a Life , that he in a manner had shut himself up from the World ; but yet when he reflected that what is called the Customs and Manners of Nations ...
... meet a Gentleman , whose Name was Ratcliff , with whom he had some small Ac- quaintance before he went into the Country . Mr. Ratcliff seemed overjoyed to meet him ; and , on hearing that Business was likely to detain him in Town ...
... meet with a more severe Censure than that she would pass on it , considering how kind Mr. Drayton had been in forgiving me the seventy Pounds : but added , that she had always accustomed herself to look on the most favourable Side of ...
Contents
Book I | 3 |
Substantive Variants between the First and Second Editions | 350 |
Emendations | 367 |
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