She Stoops to Conquer - Couverture souple

Goldsmith, Oliver

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 8124802726 ISBN 13 : 9788124802724

Editeur : Peacock Books, 2001

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Oliver Goldsmith (1730 –1774) was an Irish writer, poet, and physician known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770) (written in memory of his brother), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773). He also wrote An History of the Earth and Animated Nature. He is thought to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, the source of the phrase "goody two-shoes". Perennially in debt and addicted to gambling, Goldsmith produced a massive output as a hack writer for the publishers of London, but his few painstaking works earned him the company of Samuel Johnson, with whom he was a founding member of "The Club". The combination of his literary work and his dissolute lifestyle led Horace Walpole to give him the epithet inspired idiot. During this period he used the pseudonym "James Willington" (the name of a fellow student at Trinity) to publish his 1758 translation of the autobiography of the Huguenot Jean Marteilhe. Goldsmith was described by contemporaries as prone to envy, a congenial but impetuous and disorganized personality who once planned to emigrate to America but failed because he missed his ship.

Présentation de l'éditeur

"She Stoops to Conquer" from Oliver Goldsmith. Irish novelist, playwright and poet (1730-1774).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peacock Books
• Date d'édition: 2001
• ISBN 10: 8124802726
• ISBN 13: 9788124802724
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais