Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, The

Tekijät: Fielding, Sarah (Kirjoittaja)

Sabor, Peter (Toimittaja)
Kustantaja ja painovuosi: University Press of Kentucky 1998
Tuotteen tiedot: Sidottu, 416 s.
Kieli: English
ISBN: 0813120551
Ilmestymispäivä: 19980400
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Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, The

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Sarah Fielding (1710-1768), the author of five novels, a children's story, an imaginative historical biography, a critical treatise on Clarissa, and a translation from the Greek of Xenophon, is among the most versatile and interesting eighteenth-century women writers. The Adventures of David Simple (1744), Fielding's first and most celebrated novel, went through many English editions -- including a second edition heavily revised by her brother Henry -- and was translated into German and French. The guileless hero, having been cheated by his hypocritical younger brother, sets out to find a "real friend". In recounting David's search, the novel depicts the derision with which almost everyone treats his sentimental attitudes to human nature. An important secondary character acts as a mouthpiece for some provocative feminist ideas. This edition makes the original text of the novel available for the first time since 1744. It also reproduces Fielding's much darker sequel, Volume the Last (1753), in which a string of disasters befalls David and his family.

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