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- The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: The University Press of Kentucky
- Series: Eighteenth-Century Novels by Women
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 sequel, Volume the Last (1753).
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-iv
- Acknowledgments
- p. vi
- Introduction
- pp. vii-xxxvii
- Chronology
- pp. xxxviii-xli
- Note on the Text
- p. xlii
- Appendices
- pp. 343-374
- Notes to the Novel
- pp. 375-394
- Bibliography
- pp. 395-399
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813148250
Related ISBN(s)
9780813109459, 9780813120553, 9780813131313, 9780813182681
MARC Record
OCLC
605435364
Pages
442
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No