TY - BOOK ID - 77904292 TI - The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last AU - Fielding, Sarah AU - Sabor, Peter. PY - 1998 SN - 0813148251 9780813148250 9780813109459 0813109450 PB - Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, DB - UniCat KW - Betrayal KW - Inheritance and succession KW - Young men KW - London (England) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77904292 AB - 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 se ER -