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Oliver Goldsmith (1730–1774)

Autor(a) de The Vicar of Wakefield

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About the Author

As Samuel Johnson said in his famous epitaph on his Irish-born and educated friend, Goldsmith ornamented whatever he touched with his pen. A professional writer who died in his prime, Goldsmith wrote the best comedy of his day, She Stoops to Conquer (1773). Amongst a plethora of other fine works, mostrar mais he also wrote The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), which, despite major plot inconsistencies and the intrusion of poems, essays, tales, and lectures apparently foreign to its central concerns, remains one of the most engaging fictional works in English. One reason for its appeal is the character of the narrator, Dr. Primrose, who is at once a slightly absurd pedant, an impatient traditional father of teenagers, a Job-like figure heroically facing life's blows, and an alertly curious, helpful, loving person. Another reason is Goldsmith's own mixture of delight and amused condescension (analogous to, though not identical with, Laurence Sterne's in Tristram Shandy and Johnson's in Rasselas, both contemporaneous) as he looks at the vicar and his domestic group, fit representatives of a ludicrous but workable world. Never married and always facing financial problems, he died in London and was buried in Temple Churchyard. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Oliver Goldsmith

The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) — Autor — 2,805 exemplares
She Stoops to Conquer (1771) 1,522 exemplares
Treasury of Aesop's Fables (1973) 174 exemplares
The Deserted Village (1770) 125 exemplares
The Citizen of the World (1969) 76 exemplares
The Works of Oliver Goldsmith (1854) 59 exemplares
Oliver Goldsmith (1777) 23 exemplares
Poems, plays and essays (1900) 22 exemplares
The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith (2003) 19 exemplares
The Roman History (1805) 19 exemplares
The Mad Dog (1766) 18 exemplares
The Traveller: A Poem (1892) 18 exemplares
Grecian History (2009) 11 exemplares
History of Rome (1817) 10 exemplares
Essays (1928) 9 exemplares
Beau Nash 9 exemplares
The Letters of Oliver Goldsmith (2018) 6 exemplares
The Plays of Oliver Goldsmith (1893) 6 exemplares
Selected essays (1912) 6 exemplares
Retaliation, a poem 5 exemplares
Selected Poems (Fyfield Books) (1988) 5 exemplares
Goldsmith's Poems (1884) 5 exemplares
Goldsmith: Selected Works (1967) 5 exemplares
New essays (1969) 3 exemplares
Selected works 3 exemplares
Dalziels' Illustrated Goldsmith (2011) 2 exemplares
Poems and Essays 2 exemplares
Goldsmith's Comedies — Autor — 2 exemplares
A prospect of society 2 exemplares
Collected works 1 exemplar
Viocre Wakefield 1 exemplar
Wakefield Papazı 1 exemplar
Essays on Goldsmith (1935) 1 exemplar
Goldsmith's Natural history (1838) 1 exemplar
Good Two Shoes 1 exemplar
She Stoops To Conquer (1932) 1 exemplar
The Bee 1 exemplar
Poems and Plays 1 exemplar

Associated Works

The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (2000) — Contribuidor — 1,254 exemplares
English Poetry, Volume II: From Collins to Fitzgerald (1910) — Contribuidor — 491 exemplares
75 Short Masterpieces: Stories from the World's Literature (1961) — Contribuidor — 296 exemplares
A Book of English Essays (1942) — Contribuidor — 242 exemplares
The Penguin Book of Irish Verse (1981) — Contribuidor — 193 exemplares
Eighteenth-Century English Literature (1969) — Autor — 186 exemplares
The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction (1999) — Contribuidor — 149 exemplares
Twelve Famous Plays of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century (1933) — Contribuidor — 141 exemplares
The Standard Book of British and American Verse (1932) — Contribuidor — 114 exemplares
British Dramatists from Dryden to Sheridan (1939) — Contribuidor, algumas edições91 exemplares
The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children (1994) — Contribuidor — 72 exemplares
The Bedside Book of Famous British Stories (1940) — Contribuidor — 66 exemplares
Ride a-Cock-Horse and Other Rhymes and Stories (8-in-1) (1995)algumas edições44 exemplares
Elegy written in a country churchyard and other poems (2009) — Contribuidor — 42 exemplares
Charlotte Temple [Norton Critical Edition] (2010) — Contribuidor — 42 exemplares
The Genius of the Later English Theater (1962) — Contribuidor — 36 exemplares
Six Eighteenth-Century Plays (1963) — Contribuidor — 36 exemplares
100 Story Poems (1951) — Contribuidor — 20 exemplares
Great English Short Stories (1930) — Contribuidor — 20 exemplares
Masters of British Literature, Volume A (2007) — Contribuidor — 20 exemplares
AQA Anthology (2002) — Autor, algumas edições19 exemplares
Ellery Queen's Poetic Justice (1967) — Contribuidor, algumas edições18 exemplares
Law in Action: An Anthology of the Law in Literature (1947) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
Graphic Classics: Canine/Feline Classics (2014) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
Englische Essays aus drei Jahrhunderten (1980) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
The Works of Voltaire, Volume I. Introduction. Candide. (2012) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
Famous Stories of Five Centuries (1934) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Selected Stories of Great Authors — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Tales of Two Countries (1955) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares

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Wildly popular satirical novel of the Victorian era. Probably best left to students/devotees of the literature of the era, because who else would really care about a satire of the pop novel of the time? Yet it can still be read with some enjoyment today, with similarities to the Book of Job and to Voltaire's Candide noted, and a sense of why this was one of Dickens's favorite novels.

The first half seems considerably stronger than the second; it possesses a light tone and some quite comic scenes poking fun at the characters - one involving a commissioned painting of the "humble" family is pure gold. The second half however swings wildly about, with long harangues on the political merits of monarchy and the problem of prison reform seeming like they were shoved in from elsewhere to bulk up the book, before the soap opera-ish grand finale in a prison cell, where a disguise is removed, one thought dead is returned, a love thought lost is restored, a villain receives his comeuppance, yada yada yada.

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lelandleslie | 8 outras críticas | Feb 24, 2024 |
Three and a half stars. The second half was better than the first -- after the first half, the influence on Little Women became quite clear to me.
What I like about this book is that it invites the reader to reflect on the possibility of happiness in extremely difficult circumstances, just like War and Peace does.
 
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jd7h | 8 outras críticas | Feb 18, 2024 |
4.5*
2020 reread - just what I needed today!
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2016 reread:
I still think that this play needs to be seen to fully appreciate it but I liked this audiobook recording of a live performance. It was easier to listen to this time (I have had more practice!) and thus I found it even funnier than when I heard it a few years ago.
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May 2014 review
4.5 stars. This full cast audiobook was a fun way to revisit one of my favorite Restoration comedies. However, I did find that some of the humor was a bit harder to visualize listening rather than reading.… (mais)
 
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leslie.98 | 20 outras críticas | Jun 27, 2023 |
 
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rbee | Nov 9, 2022 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
271
Also by
40
Membros
6,767
Popularidade
#3,614
Avaliação
½ 3.6
Críticas
97
ISBN
474
Línguas
10
Marcado como favorito
3

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