the vicar of wakefild Oliver Goldsmith English Books•Classics
Homage to Catalonia•Down and Out in Paris and London•Burmese Days•A Clergyman's Daughter•Keep the Aspidistra Flying•Coming Up for Air•The Road to Wigan Pier•Lord Jim•Heart of Darkness•The Secret Agent•Nostromo•Victory
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.