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The vicar of Wakefield /
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 contains, in the figure of the vicar himself, one of the most harmlessly simply and unsophisticated yet also ironically complex narrato...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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| Edición: | New ed. |
| Colección: | Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Oliver Goldsmith; I. The description of the family of Wakefield; in which a kindred likeness prevails as well of minds as of persons; II. Family misfortunes. The loss of fortune only serves to encrease the pride of the worthy; III. A migration. The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found at last to be of our own procuring; IV. A proof that even the humblest fortune may grant happiness, which depends not on circumstance, but constitution.