Vicar of Wakefield, The

Description
Goldsmith`s famous novel, which includes the song `When lovely woman stoops to folly`, remains one of the most highly regarded and beloved works of eighteenth-century fiction, enjoyed b ...

Description
Goldsmith`s famous novel, which includes the song `When lovely woman stoops to folly`, remains one of the most highly regarded and beloved works of eighteenth-century fiction, enjoyed by general readers as well as students of literature.
The new introduction by Robert L. Mack examines the reasons for its popularity, and the critical debates over an apparently straightforward novel of sentiment that has also been read as a satire on the social and economic inequalities of the period, and the very literary conventions and morality it seems to embody.
New, up-to-date bibliography a