The vicar of Wakefield

Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730-1730?-1774. (Author). Friedman, Arthur, 1906-1981 (Added Author).

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 0192805126
ISBN: 9780192805126
ISBN: 0191517143
ISBN: 9780191517143
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xlvii, 197 pages)
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Edition: New ed.
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.