The Vicar of Wakefield (Penguin English Library)
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The story opens in the country parsonage of Dr. Primrose, a kindly man who has a good heart, a good family, and a good income. Suddenly, his idyllic life is cruelly devastated by a series of misfortunes, and he ends up in prison. Yet, despite all this calamity and injustice, the vicar never loses sight of Christian morality, a conviction which lends him genuine nobility and, in the end, also brings justice and the restoration of his family and fortune.
Through this simple, almost fairy-tale plot, Goldsmith gives us a charming comedy. It is not a novel of sentiment but an artful send-up of many of the familiar literary conventions of his day: the pastoral scene, the artificial romance, the unquestioning stoic bravery of the hero-all culminating, of course, in a gloriously improbable denouement.
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The description of the family of Wakefield; in which a kindred likeness prevails as well of minds as of persons
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The Vicar of Wakefield (Penguin English Library)
The Vicar of Wakefield (Penguin English Library),Oliver Goldsmith,Stephen Coote,Penguin Classics,0140431594,Classics,Fiction,Literature - Classics / Criticism,16th to 18th century fiction,Classic fiction,Fiction / Literary
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