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Rich with wisdom and gentle irony, Oliver Goldsmith's only novel is a charming comedy that tells of an unworldly and generous vicar who lives contentedly with his large family until disaster strikes. When his idyllic life is brutally interrupted by bankruptcy and his daughter's abduction, he lands in prison. Yet these misfortunes fail to conquer the vicar's spirit or cause him to lose sight of Christian morality.A delightful lampoon of such literary conventions of the day as pastoral scenes, artificial romance, and the hero's stoic bravery, The Vicar of Wakefield has remained a classic since its first publication in 1766.

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This charming comedy has delighted audiences for over two centuries. First performed in 1773, it concerns Kate Hardcastle, a young lady who poses as a serving girl to win the heart of a young gentleman too shy to court ladies of his own class. A number of delightful deceits and hilarious turns of plot must be played out before the mating strategies of both Kate Hardcastle and her friend Constance Neville conclude happily. Along the way, there is an abundance of merry mix-ups, racy dialogue and sly satire of the sentimental comedies of Goldsmith's day.The extraordinary humor and humanity with which Goldsmith invested this play have made it one of the most read, performed, and studied of all English comedies. It is now available in this inexpensive Dover edition, based on the text of the fourth edition, published in the year of the play's first staging.

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The Poetry of Oliver Goldsmith, anthology:<br><br>Table Of Contents<br>THE TRAVELLER<br>THE DESERTED VILLAGE<br>LYRICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PIECES<br>ON A BEAUTIFUL YOUTH STRUCK BLIND WITH LIGHTNING<br>THE GIFT<br>THE LOGICIANS REFUTED<br>A SONNET<br>STANZAS ON THE TAKING OF QUEBEC, AND DEATH OF<br>AN ELEGY ON THAT GLORY OF HER SEX,<br>DESCRIPTION OF AN AUTHOR&#39;S BEDCHAMBER<br>ON SEEING MRS. ** PERFORM IN THE CHARACTER OF ****<br>OF THE DEATH OF THE RIGHT HON. ***<br>AN EPIGRAM<br>TO G. C. AND R. L.<br>TRANSLATION OF A SOUTH AMERICAN ODE<br>THE DOUBLE TRANSFORMATION<br>A NEW SIMILE<br>EDWIN AND ANGELA<br>ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A MAD DOG<br>SONG<br>EPILOGUE TO &#39;THE GOOD NATUR&#39;D MAN&#39;<br>EPILOGUE TO &#39;THE SISTER&#39;<br>PROLOGUE TO &#39;ZOBEIDE&#39;<br>THRENODIA AUGUSTALIS:<br>SONG<br>EPILOGUE TO &#39;SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER&#39;<br>RETALIATION<br>POSTSCRIPT<br>SONG<br>TRANSLATION<br>THE HAUNCH OF VENISON<br>EPITAPH ON THOMAS PARNELL<br>THE CLOWN&#39;S REPLY<br>EPITAPH ON EDWARD PURDON<br>EPILOGUE FOR MR. LEE LEWES<br>EPILOGUE<br>EPILOGUE<br>THE CAPTIVITY<br>VERSES IN REPLY TO AN INVITATION TO DINNER AT DR. BAKER&#39;S.<br>LETTER IN PROSE AND VERSE TO MRS. BUNBURY<br>VIDA&#39;S GAME OF CHESS<br>NOTES.

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"She Stoops to Conquer" is the comedic drama that depicts the story of Charles Marlow, a wealthy young man who is promised to a woman that he has never met. While he is eager to meet her, Charles is quite shy in the company of women of wealth, however in the company of women of the lower classes he transforms into a lecherous rogue. Learning of this, Kate Hardcastle, the woman he is promised too, pretends to be a serving-maid in order to win Charles's affections. «She Stoops to Conquer» is a charming and light-hearted play.

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«Вэкфильдский священник» – самый известный роман английского прозаика, поэта и драматурга Оливера Голдсмита (англ. Oliver Goldsmith, 1730-1774). *** Пастор Чарльз Примроз ведет безмятежное существование на лоне природы. Идиллии четы Примроз, однако, приходит конец, когда пастор узнает о банкротстве купца, заведовавшего их состоянием… Другими знаменитыми произведениями писателя являются «Гражданин мира, или Письма китайского философа, проживающего в Лондоне, своим друзьям на Востоке», «Путешественник», «Покинутая деревня» и «Ночь ошибок, или Унижение паче гордости». Ирландец по национальности, Оливер Голдсмит занимает почетное место в литературе английского сентиментализма.

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