The Vicar of Wakefield - Brossura

Goldsmith, Oliver

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ISBN 10: 0192805126 ISBN 13: 9780192805126

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2006

Riassunto

'He loved all mankind; for fortune prevented him from knowing there were rascals.' 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 recognizable depiction of domestic life and loving family relationships. Regarded by some as a straightforward and well-intentioned novel of sentiment, and by others as a satire on the very literary conventions and morality it seems to embody, The Vicar of Wakefield contains, in the figure of the vicar himself, one of the most harmlessly simply and unsophisticated yet also ironically complex narrators ever to appear in English fiction.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Robert L. Mack has edited a number of volumes for Oxford World's Classics, including Burney's The Wanderer, and Oriental Tales. He is the author of Thomas Gray: A Life.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0192805126
• ISBN 13: 9780192805126
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256
• Redattore: Friedman Arthur, Mack Robert L.
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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