The Adventures of David Simple (1744), Sarah Fielding\u27s first and most celebrated novel, went through several editions, the second of which was heavily revised by her brother Henry. This edition includes Henry\u27s corrections in an appendix. In recounting the guileless hero\u27s 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\u27s much darker sequel, Volume the Last (1753).
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\u27s series of 18th-century women\u27s novels. -- Choice
Sabor restores the novel Sarah Fielding really wrote. -- East-Central Intelligencer
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
The revival of interest in Sarah Fielding’s writings over the last decade should be quickened by the publication of this important edition. -- Letters in Canada
Sabor\u27s introduction lays out the family tragedies and financial difficulties that perplexed Fielding\u27s career and provides a detailed revisionist account of her impressive literary accomplishments. -- Publishers Weekly
This important edition reproduces for the first time since its original publication the first edition of 1744. -- Virginia Quarterly Review
Will undoubtedly spur even more work by scholars and students of the early novel. -- Year’s Work in English Studieshttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_english_language_and_literature_british_isles/1009/thumbnail.jp