The Adventures of David Simple is the story of one man's search for truth, honesty, and friendship in a corrupt world. Following the literary model of Don Quixote, the novel is both a witty and engaging satire of eighteenth-century London life and a serious examination of the moral and social issues facing men and women of the day. Fielding draws upon her own experiences as an impoverished, unmarried gentlewoman to portray her two heroines, Cynthia and Camilla, and infuses the novel with provocative feminist ideas as she makes a pointed critique of the position of women. This Penguin Classics edition includes a critical introduction, suggestions for further reading, a chronology, notes, and a glossary. It also includes two appendixes: Henry Fielding's preface to the second edition and a note about the currency of eighteenth-century England. Edited with an introduction and notes by Linda Bree.

The Adventures of David Simple

Literature & Fiction

Fielding, Sarah

Classics

Penguin Classics

The adventures of David Simple: Containing an account of his travels through the Cities of London and Westminster in the search of a real friend; (Oxford English novels)

Literary

Oxford U.P.

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The governess;: Or, little female academy (The Juvenile library)

Sarah Fielding was the sister of Henry Fielding and a close friend of Samuel Richardson. She shares much of her brother's wit and irony, but it was primarily for her psychological penetration that her work was praised. This edition of her first novel reprints the text that was substantially revised, and prefaced, by her brother.

The Adventures of David Simple: Containing an Account of His Travels Through the Cities of London and Westminster in the Search of a Real Friend (The ^AWorld's Classics)

British & Irish

Oxford University Press

The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia

Biographies & Memoirs

Franklin Classics

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The Governess (Large Print Edition)

BiblioLife

The Governess

" 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).

The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last: Containing an Account of His Travels Through the Cities of London and Westminster, in the Search ... Friend (Eighteenth-Century Novels by Women)

Sabor, Peter

United States

Univ Pr of Kentucky

Before Jane Austen's novels explored heroines in English society, writers Sarah Fielding and Jane Collier dared to provide commentary on gender and education through self-conscious narratives. Published in 1754 in five parts and divided into three volumes, The Cry stands as one of the most distinctive and intriguing works by women during the florescence of their writing in eighteenth-century England. Strikingly experimental―mixing fiction and philosophy, drama and exposition, satire and irony, and singular and choral voices―The Cry revolves around a main character, Portia, who tells a series of stories to an audience that includes Una, the allegorical representation of truth, and "The Cry" itself, a collection of characters who serve as a kind of Greek chorus. A story about the story-making female subject, the novel serves as a catalyst to convey that women are capable of doing all of the things that men can do―discuss ethics, learn, and think rationally―and should be allowed to do these things publically. Throughout, editor Carolyn Woodward offers essential historical and editorial context to the work, demonstrating that this novel continues to facilitate discussions about women and public life.

The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable (18th-Century Novels By Women)

Collier, Jane

University Press of Kentucky

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The Cry (1754) (Scholars' fcsimiles & Reprints)

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Scholars' Facsimilies & Reprint

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