The vicar of Wakefield:
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Main Author: Goldsmith, Oliver (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 2006
Edition:New ed
Series:Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references
Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Oliver Goldsmith; I. The description of the family of Wakefield; in which a kindred likeness prevails as well of minds as of persons; II. Family misfortunes. The loss of fortune only serves to encrease the pride of the worthy; III. A migration. The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found at last to be of our own procuring; IV. A proof that even the humblest fortune may grant happiness, which depends not on circumstance, but constitution
Oliver Goldsmith's hugely successful novel of 1766 remained for generations one of the most highly regarded and beloved works of eighteenth-century fiction. It contains, in the figure of the vicar himself, one of the most harmlessly simply and unsophisticated yet also ironically complex narrators ever to appear in English fiction. - ;'He loved all mankind; for fortune prevented him from knowing there were rascals.'. Oliver Goldsmith's hugely successful novel of 1766 remained for generations one of the most highly regarded and beloved works of eighteenth-century fiction. It depicts the fall and
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xlvii, 197 pages)
ISBN:0191517143
9780191517143

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