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Oliver Goldsmith
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Poet, Journalist, Playwright and Novelist--Oliver Goldsmith led a life of extreme poverty despite his literary successes. Indeed, tradition has it that The Vicar of Wakefield was published at the instigation of Dr. Johnson to pay the author's long overdue rent. The immediate success of this book led Goldsmith to try his hand at playwriting. His second attempt resulted in that incomparable comedy She Stoops to Conquer. One year after that play's success, Goldsmith died, perhaps as the result of trying to treat his own illness. His fame is commemorated by a monument in Westminster Abbey and, more lastingly, by the place he has held in the hearts of readers from his day to ours.
Book List in Order: 17 titles
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The Vicar of Wakefield
- Aug-1973
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A best seller in its day and one of the best-known English novels of all time, The Vicar of Wakefield is Oliver Goldsmith's masterpiece. Written with robust good humor and gentle satire, this story of a delightful country parson and his family is ...
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She Stoops To Conquer
- Dec-2010
- / General Fiction
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"She Stoops to Conquer" is the comedic drama that depicts the story of Charles Marlow, a wealthy young man who is promised to a woman that he has never met. While he is eager to meet her, Charles is quite shy in the company of women of wealth...
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Goldsmith's Miscellaneous Works. Poems And Plays. The Vicar Of Wakefield. The Citizen Of The World. Essays, Etc.
- Apr-2011
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Title: Goldsmith's miscellaneous works. Poems and plays. The vicar of Wakefield. The citizen of the world. Essays, &c. &c.
Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions
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The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith
- Nov-2014
- / General Fiction
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" ...]a notable exception to this rule. He was born on the 10th of November, 1728, at Pallas, a village in the county of Longford in Ireland, his father, the Rev. Charles Goldsmith, being a clergyman of the Established Church. Oliver was the fifth of...
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An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog
One of a series of classic Victorian children's books by the British artist and author. Caldecott was the eponym of the Caldecott Medal and transformed the world of children's books in the Victorian era. He exercised his art chiefly in book illustrat...
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An Elegy On The Glory Of Her Sex, Mrs. Mary Blaize
One of a series of classic Victorian children's books by the British artist and author. Caldecott was the eponym of the Caldecott Medal and transformed the world of children's books in the Victorian era. He exercised his art chiefly in book illustrat...
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A History Of The Earth And Animated Nature
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Miscellaneous Works
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The Miscellaneous Works Of Oliver Goldsmith
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Pinnock's Improved Edition Of Dr. Goldsmith's History Of England
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The Vicar of Wakefield - Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
Oliver Goldsmith's 'The Vicar of Wakefield' from 1766 has remained for generations one of the most highly regarded and beloved works of eighteenth-century fiction.
It tells of the rise and fall of the Primrose family, presided over ... -
The Works Of Oliver Goldsmith
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The Works Of Oliver Goldsmith Part Four
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The Works Of Oliver Goldsmith Part Three
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The Works Of Oliver Goldsmith Part Two
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