The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last

"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