Adventures of David Simple-Pa

by Sarah Fielding

Book Overview

"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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813109450
• ISBN13: 9780813109459
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 442 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher