The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last - Softcover

Sarah Fielding

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813109450 ISBN 13: 9780813109459

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky, 1998

Synopsis

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 sequel, Volume the Last (1753).

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

"Sabor's introduction lays out the family tragedies and financial difficulties that perplexed Fielding's career and provides a detailed revisionist account of her impressive literary accomplishments."--Publishers Weekly

"David Simple is the most-read work of Sarah Fielding, best known as the sister of novelist Henry Fielding. This attractive new edition by Sabor is the fourth in Kentucky's series of 18th-century women's novels."--Choice

“A welcome addition to eighteenth-century studies. . . . Readers of eighteenth-century fiction will be delighted that Sarah Fielding’s edition has been restored in a volume that is accessible, responsibly edited, and handsomely produced.”—Eighteenth-Century Fiction

About the Author:

Sarah Fielding (1710--1768) was an English author and sister of the novelist Henry Fielding. She wrote The Governess, or Little Female Academy (1749), the first novel in English aimed specifically at children. Earlier she had success with her novel The Adventures of David Simple (1744).

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0813109450
• ISBN 13: 9780813109459
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 442
• Editor: Peter Sabor