Adventures of David Simple-Pa

"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

Author: Sarah Fielding
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 05/14/1998
Pages: 442
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.04w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780813109459

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/06/1998 pg. 61

About the Author
Fielding, Sarah: - 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).

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