Limit search to available items
Record 37 of 620
Previous Record Next Record
Book Cover
E-book
Author Fielding, Sarah, 1710-1768.

Title The adventures of David Simple : containing an account of his travels through the cities of London and Westminster, in the search of a real friend ; and, the adventures of David Simple, volume the last : in which his history is concluded / Sarah Fielding ; Peter Sabor, editor
Published Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©1998

Copies

Description 1 online resource (442 pages)
Series Eighteenth-century novels by women
Eighteenth-century novels by women.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chronology; Note on the Text; The Adventures of David Simple; Book I; Book II; Book III; Book IV; The Adventures of David Simple, Volume the Last; Book V; Book VI; Book VII; Appendices; I: Henry Fielding's Preface to the Second Edition (1744); II: Substantive Variants between the First and Second Editions; III: Emendations; IV: Thomas Stothard's Illustrations to the Novelist's Magazine Edition (1782); Notes to the Novel; Bibliography
Summary A two-volume reprint--restoring original text-- of an 18th century novel on the pitfalls of friendship. The hero, David Simple, is a man repeatedly deceived by people to whom he became attached. In the first volume he is cheated of his fortune, but regains it, in the second he loses it for good
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Friendship -- Fiction
FICTION -- General.
FICTION -- Classics.
Friendship
SUBJECT London (England) -- Fiction
Subject England -- London
Genre/Form Fiction
Form Electronic book
Author Sabor, Peter
Fielding, Sarah, 1710-1768. Adventures of David Simple, volume the last
ISBN 9780813148250
0813148251
Other Titles Adventures of David Simple ; Adventures of David Simple, volume the last
Adventures of David Simple, volume the last
Adventures of David Simple, volume the last
Adventures of David Simple, volume the last
Adventures of David Simple, volume the last
Adventures of David Simple, volume the last