The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last

The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last by Sarah Fielding. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780813109459.

The Adventures of David Simple (1744), Sarah Fieldings first and most celebrated novel, went through several editions, the second of which was heavily revised by her brother Henry. This edition includes Henrys "corrections" in an appendix. In recounting the guileless heros 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 Fieldings much darker sequel, Volume the Last (1753).