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The Vicar of Wakefield

Name: The Vicar of Wakefield
ISBN: 9781625581136

Oliver Goldsmith, Steven Green, Audioliterature

Start Publishing LLC · Print & ebook · November 26, 2012

Reading lane: 20th-Century Historical Romance

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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
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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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