The Vicar of Wakefield - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 0192805126 ISBN 13 : 9780192805126

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2006

Synopsis

'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.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Oliver Goldsmith (1728 - 1774) was born in Ireland. Having studied at Trinity College, Dublin, he studied medicine at Edinburgh and Leyden after being rejected by the Church of Ireland. Settling in London, he was writing professionally by 1757 and became a friend of Johnson. Best known for She Stoops to Conquer, The Vicar of Wakefield is his only novel and is generally considered his finest work.Stephen Coote was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge and Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of critical studies of Chaucer, T.S. Eliot and English literature of the Middle Ages, as well as biographies of Byron and William Morris.

Présentation de l'éditeur

One of the most popular novels of its time, The Vicar of Wakefield tells the story of Dr. Primrose, a wealthy man who enjoys a seemingly perfect life with his family in a quaint Irish village. However, when the vicar’s wealth is usurped by a treacherous merchant investor, his family undergoes tremendous hardship and turmoil. The good nature of the Primroses contrasting sharply with the iniquitous characters around them, The Vicar of Wakefield is a sentimental novel that explores what happens when idyllic lives are no longer insulated from the evils of the world and how good people still manage to persevere.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0192805126
• ISBN 13: 9780192805126
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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