The Adventures of David Simple (Eighteenth-century Novels by Women)

David Simple is the most-read work of Sarah Fielding, best known as the sister of novelist Henry Fielding. This attractive new edition by Sabor is the fourth in Kentucky's series of 18th-century women's novels. -- Choice

Sabor restores the novel Sarah Fielding really wrote. -- East-Central Intelligencer

A welcome addition to eighteenth-century studies.... Readers of eighteenth-century fiction will be delighted that Sarah Fielding's edition has been restored in a volume that is accessible, responsibly edited, and handsomely produced. -- Eighteenth-Century Fiction

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'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. -- Publishers Weekly

This important edition reproduces for the first time since its original publication the first edition of 1744. -- Virginia Quarterly Review

Will undoubtedly spur even more work by scholars and students of the early novel. -- Year's Work in English Studies