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The Vicar of Wakefield
Oliver Goldsmith, Steven Green, Audioliterature
Start Publishing LLC · Print & ebook · November 26, 2012
Reading lane: 20th-Century Historical Romance
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Book Details
- Authors
- Oliver Goldsmith, Steven Green, Audioliterature
- Publisher
- Start Publishing LLC
- Published
- November 26, 2012
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- 20th-Century Historical Romance · Gothic Romance
- Reading lane
- 20th-Century Historical Romance
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Ancient & Classical Collections
Eastern European Collections
English, Irish & Scottish Collections
About This Book
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 recogn...
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