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Author : Oliver Goldsmith
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Page : 250 pages
File Size : 16,51 MB
Release : 1820
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Author : Oliver Goldsmith
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Page : 250 pages
File Size : 16,51 MB
Release : 1820
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Author : Anthony Trollope
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Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,29 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Barsetshire (England : Imaginary place)
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Author : Oliver Goldsmith
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Page : 192 pages
File Size : 15,2 MB
Release : 1889
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Author : Oliver Goldsmith
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Page : 360 pages
File Size : 18,17 MB
Release : 1839
Category : Medicine in literature
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Author : Oliver Goldsmith
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Page : 40 pages
File Size : 27,16 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Illustrators
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Author : Oliver Goldsmith
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Page : 220 pages
File Size : 36,9 MB
Release : 2021-01-24
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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.
Author : Oliver Goldsmith
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 39,18 MB
Release : 2024-04-15
Category : Poetry
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"She Stoops to Conquer" is a comedy play written by the Anglo-Irish playwright Oliver Goldsmith. It was first performed in London in 1773. The play is a classic of English literature and is known for its humor, wit, and exploration of social class distinctions. The plot revolves around the attempts of two young men, Marlow and Hastings, to court the wealthy Miss Kate Hardcastle and her cousin Constance Neville. Mistaken identities, misunderstandings, and comedic situations ensue when Marlow mistakes the Hardcastle home for an inn and behaves differently towards Kate than he does towards ladies of his own class. The title, "She Stoops to Conquer," refers to the central plot point where Kate pretends to be a barmaid to win over Marlow, who is shy and awkward around upper-class women but more confident with women of lower social status.
Author : Norma Clarke
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 34,86 MB
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674968743
Oliver Goldsmith arrived in England in 1756 a penniless Irishman. He toiled for years in the anonymity of Grub Street—already a synonym for impoverished hack writers—before he became one of literary London’s most celebrated authors. Norma Clarke tells the extraordinary story of this destitute scribbler turned gentleman of letters as it unfolds in the early days of commercial publishing, when writers’ livelihoods came to depend on the reading public, not aristocratic patrons. Clarke examines a network of writers radiating outward from Goldsmith: the famous and celebrated authors of Dr. Johnson’s “Club” and those far less fortunate “brothers of the quill” trapped in Grub Street. Clarke emphasizes Goldsmith’s sense of himself as an Irishman, showing that many of his early literary acquaintances were Irish émigrés: Samuel Derrick, John Pilkington, Paul Hiffernan, and Edward Purdon. These writers tutored Goldsmith in the ways of Grub Street, and their influence on his development has not previously been explored. Also Irish was the patron he acquired after 1764, Robert Nugent, Lord Clare. Clarke places Goldsmith in the tradition of Anglo-Irish satirists beginning with Jonathan Swift. He transmuted troubling truths about the British Empire into forms of fable and nostalgia whose undertow of Irish indignation remains perceptible, if just barely, beneath an equanimous English surface. To read Brothers of the Quill is to be taken by the hand into the darker corners of eighteenth-century Grub Street, and to laugh and cry at the absurdities of the writing life.
Author : Washington Irving
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Page : 664 pages
File Size : 23,31 MB
Release : 1864
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Author : Oliver Goldsmith
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 16,64 MB
Release : 1900
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