The Vicar of Wakefield

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Oliver Goldsmith Arthur Friedman (Late Professor of English, University of Chicago)

The Vicar of Wakefield

Oliver Goldsmith, Arthur Friedman (Late Professor of English, University of Chicago), Robert L. Mack (Lecturer in English, University of Exeter)

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Worlds Classics
09 October 2008

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Series: Oxford World's Classics

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'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 rise of the Primrose family, presided over by the benevolent vicar, the narrator of a fairy-tale plot of impersonation and deception, the abduction of a beautiful heroine and the machinations of an aristocratic villain.

By turns comic and sentimental, the novel's popularity owes much to its recognizable depiction of domestic life and loving family relationships.

Regarded by some as a straightforward and well-intentioned novel of sentiment, and by others as a satire on the very literary conventions and morality it seems to embody, The Vicar of Wakefield 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.

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By: Oliver Goldsmith
Edited by: Arthur Friedman (Late Professor of English University of Chicago), Robert L. Mack (Lecturer in English, University of Exeter)
Imprint: Worlds Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 182g
ISBN: 9780199537549
ISBN 10: 0199537542
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 09 October 2008
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active