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The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last: Containing an Account of His Travels Through the Cities of London and Westminster, in the Search of ... Friend (Eighteenth-Century Novels By Women)
The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last Containing an Account of His Travels Through the Cities of London and Westminster in the Search of Friend - Eighteenth-Century Novels By Women Author:Sarah Fielding, Peter Sabor 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 recou... more »nting 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, the fourth in the series Eighteenth-Century Novels by Women, 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.« less