- Paperback: 442 pages
- Publisher: Scholarly Book Services Inc; Reprint edition (Jun 27 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0813109450
- ISBN-13: 978-0813109459
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.3 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 612 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,084,492 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
A bestseller when it first appeared in 1744, The Adventures of David Simple has since suffered at the hands of Sarah's more famous brother, Henry, who edited the novel substantially in all subsequent editions. Now Sabor has done a service to academics and general readers by restoring Sarah Fielding's original text. In the opening chapters of this "Moral Romance," David Simple's brother cheats him out of his inheritance; David's fortune is restored only when a guilt-stricken accomplice reveals the crime. After this betrayal, David makes a quixotic resolution "To travel though the whole World rather than not meet with a real Friend." He finds nothing but deceit until he meets with Cynthia, Valentine and Camilla, genteel but impoverished young people whose relations have unfairly cast them off. The novel concludes with a double marriage; the couples will live together in a utopian establishment funded by David's inheritance. Fielding's 1753 sequel, Volume the Last, is considerably darker. David endures a Job-like series of afflictions as, plagued by lawsuits, false friends and illness, he loses his fortune, his house, his children and his beloved wife. On his deathbed, David meditates on "the Horrors of Friendship": attachment to loved ones leads only to pain in a world where "solid and lasting Happiness is not to be attained." Sabor's introduction lays out the family tragedies and financial difficulties that perplexed Fielding's career and provides a detailed revisionist account of her impressive literary accomplishments.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review
"This important edition reproduces for the first time since its original publication the first edition of 1744." -- Virginia Quarterly Review
“Sabor restores the novel Sarah Fielding really wrote.” -- East-Central Intelligencer
“The revival of interest in Sarah Fielding’s writings over the last decade should be quickened by the publication of this important edition.” -- Letters in Canada
“Sabor restores the novel Sarah Fielding really wrote.” -- East-Central Intelligencer
“The revival of interest in Sarah Fielding’s writings over the last decade should be quickened by the publication of this important edition.” -- Letters in Canada
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