The Vicar of Wakefield (Oxford World's Classics)

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The Vicar of Wakefield (Oxford World's Classics)

'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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Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	New edition
EISBN	9780191604713
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	OUP Oxford
Manufacturer	OUP Oxford
NumberOfPages	256
PublicationDate	2006-05-11
Publisher	OUP Oxford
ReleaseDate	2006-05-11
Studio	OUP Oxford

The Vicar of Wakefield (Oxford World's Classics)

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