| Description |
1 online resource (xlvii, 197 pages) |
| Series |
Oxford world's classics |
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Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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| Contents |
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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Clergy -- Fiction.
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Children of clergy -- Fiction
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Poor families -- Fiction
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Abduction -- Fiction
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Prisoners -- Fiction
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Abduction
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Children of clergy
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Clergy
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Poor families
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Prisoners
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| SUBJECT |
England -- Fiction
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| Subject |
England
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Friedman, Arthur, 1906-1981
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| ISBN |
9780191517143 |
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0191517143 |
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