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

Sarah Fielding

ISBN 10: 0192553208 / ISBN 13: 9780192553201

Published by Oxford University Press, 1969

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Bibliographic Details

• 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
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 1969
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0192553208
• ISBN 13: 9780192553201
• Binding: Hardback

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Synopsis

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Very Good, 1st Edition. 436pp. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscription or marks of any kind. In very good bright gilt lettered turquoise and clipped original purple dustwrapper, clean crisp corners and edges. Earliest authoritative Edition of classic text, of interest to reader, scholar and collector alike.

About the Author

Sarah Fielding (1710-68) was the sister of Henry Fielding and a friend of Samuel Richardson. She turned to writing to support herself financially. 'David Simple' (1744) was her most popular novel and she also published a translation of Xenophon and the first critical study of Richardon's novel 'Clarissa'. Linda Bree has lectured at Queen Mary & Westfield College London, and the University of Essex and is now a commissioning editor at CUP. She is the author of a study of Sarah Fielding.