The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale of a Country Clergyman
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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A country clergyman with a large family, a small fortune and an unshakable good opinion of himself loses the money in the first chapter, and things proceed downhill with perfect cheerfulness. Goldsmith failed at medicine, teaching and the church, wandered Europe playing the flute for meals, and — the story goes — sold this manuscript overnight to keep his landlady from having him arrested. Forty-two plates of the period's domestic and landscape painting, from Gainsborough to Chardin, give the clergyman's household and its rural world a visual setting.
A country clergyman with a large family, a small fortune and an unshakable good opinion of himself loses the money in the first chapter, and things proceed downhill with perfect cheerfulness. Goldsmith failed at medicine, teaching and the church, wandered Europe playing the flute for meals, and —...
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Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774), an Irish writer, settled in London in 1756 and contributed to periodicals before publishing his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766). He also wrote the poem The Deserted Village (1770) and the comedy She Stoops to Conquer (1773). He was a member of Samuel Johnson's Literary Club.
Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774), an Irish writer, settled in London in 1756 and contributed to periodicals before publishing his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766). He also wrote the poem The Deserted Village (1770) and the comedy She Stoops to Conquer (1773). He was a member of Samuel Johnson's Li...
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