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The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last / Sarah Fielding ; Peter Sabor, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fielding, Sarah, 1710-1768.
- Series:
- Eighteenth-century novels by women.
- Eighteenth-Century Novels by Women
- Standardized Title:
- Adventures of David Simple
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Betrayal--Fiction.
- Betrayal.
- Inheritance and succession--Fiction.
- Inheritance and succession.
- Young men--Fiction.
- Young men.
- London (England)--Fiction.
- London (England).
- Genre:
- Satire.
- Bildungsromans.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (442 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Adventures of David Simple (1744), Sarah Fielding's first and most celebrated novel, went through several editions, the second of which was heavily revised by her brother Henry. This edition includes Henry's ""corrections"" in an appendix. In recounting the guileless hero's search for a true friend, the novel depicts the derision with which almost everyone treats his sentimental attitudes to human nature. Acclaimed as an accurate portrait of mid-eighteenth-century London, The Adventures of David Simple sets forth some provocative feminist ideas. Also included is Fielding's much darker se
- Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chronology; Note on the Text; The Adventures of David Simple; Book I; Book II; Book III; Book IV; The Adventures of David Simple, Volume the Last; Book V; Book VI; Book VII; Appendices; I: Henry Fielding's Preface to the Second Edition (1744); II: Substantive Variants between the First and Second Editions; III: Emendations; IV: Thomas Stothard's Illustrations to the Novelist's Magazine Edition (1782); Notes to the Novel; Bibliography
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-399).
- Description based on print version record.
- Contains:
- Adventures of David Simple, volume the last.
- Fielding, Sarah, 1710-1768. Adventures of David Simple, volume the last.
- ISBN:
- 9780813109459
- 0813109450
- 9780813148250
- 0813148251
- OCLC:
- 605435364
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