
The Vicar of Wakefield
Oliver Goldsmith(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 1. August 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-19-280512-6 (ISBN)
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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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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
179 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-280512-6 (9780192805126)
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