num_pages: 442
description: " 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).
language: English
title: The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last
titlecomplete: The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last
genres: 18th Century, Read For School, English Literature
ratings_count: 37
publisher: University Press of Kentucky