the vicar of wakefild Oliver Goldsmith English Books•Classics
Peter Pan•Frankenstein•Wuthering Heights•The Strange Case of Dr jekyll and Mr Hyde•The Secret Garden•The Picture of Dorian Gray•The Great Gatsby•Alice In Wonderland•Pride and Prejudice•Persuasion•Sense and Sensibility•Emma
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.