The Vicar of Wakefield

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  • The Vicar of Wakefield Book Detail

  • Author : Oliver Goldsmith
  • Release Date : 2024-06-30
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Genre : Literary Collections
  • Pages : 0
  • ISBN 13 : 9781108479165
  • File Size : 45,45 MB
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The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith PDF Summary

Book Description: This newly edited critical edition of an enduringly popular tale, one of the most widely reprinted and illustrated works of fiction in English, offers readers an authoritative text along with extensive and helpful annotation. Following the lives of the vicar and his family, and the various calamities which befall them, The Vicar of Wakefield was one of the most popular and beloved works of eighteenth-century fiction. A lively introduction details the reception of Goldsmith's tale, from comments by Fanny Burney and Goethe, through Sir Walter Scott, Washington Irving and Henry James, to critics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The volume also includes appendices comprising a wealth of contextual information, enhancing the work for contemporary readers. For scholars of Goldsmith and new readers alike, this edition will prove the authoritative version of a tale that moved generations of readers to laughter and to tears.

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