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The Vicar of Wakefield

Oliver Goldsmith

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Table of contents
  • Title Page2
  • DOVER THRIFT EDITIONS - GENERAL EDITOR: PAUL NEGRI EDITOR OF THIS VOLUME: SUSAN L. RATTINER3
  • Copyright Page4
  • Note5
  • A TALE - Supposed to be written by HIMSELF6
  • ADVERTISEMENT7
  • Table of Contents8
  • CHAPTER 1 - The description of the family of Wakefield; in which a kindred likeness prevails as well of minds as of persons9
  • CHAPTER 2 - Family misfortunes. The loss of fortune only serves to encrease the pride of the worthy10
  • CHAPTER 3 - A migration. The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found at last to be of our own procuring11
  • CHAPTER 4 - A proof that even the humblest fortune may grant happiness, which depends not on circumstance, but constitution13
  • CHAPTER 5 - A new and great acquaintance introduced. What we place most hopes upon, generally proves most fatal14
  • CHAPTER 6 - The happiness of a country fire-side15
  • CHAPTER 7 - A town wit described. The dullest fellows may learn to be comical for a night or two16
  • CHAPTER 8 - An amour, which promises little good fortune, yet may be productive of much17
  • CHAPTER 9 - Two ladies of great distinction introduced. Superior finery ever seems to confer superior breeding19
  • CHAPTER 10 - The family endeavours to cope with their betters. The miseries of the poor when they attempt to appear above their circumstances20
  • CHAPTER 11 - The family still resolve to hold up their heads21
  • CHAPTER 12 - Fortune seems resolved to humble the family of Wakefield. Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities23
  • CHAPTER 13 - Mr. Burchell is found to be an enemy; for he has the confidence to give disagreeable advice24
  • CHAPTER 14 - Fresh mortifications, or a demonstration that seeming calamities may be real blessings25
  • CHAPTER 15 - All Mr. Burchell’s villainy at once detected. The folly of being over-wise27
  • CHAPTER 16 - The family use art, which is opposed with still greater29
  • CHAPTER 17 - Scarce any virtue found to resist the power of long and pleasing temptation31
  • CHAPTER 18 - The pursuit of a father to reclaim a lost child to virtue34
  • CHAPTER 19 - The description of a person discontented with the present government, and apprehensive of the loss of our liberties35
  • CHAPTER 20 - The history of a philosophic vagabond, pursuing novelty, but losing content37
  • CHAPTER 21 - The short continuance of friendship amongst the vicious, which is coeval only with mutual satisfaction41
  • CHAPTER 22 - Offences are easily pardoned where there is love at bottom43
  • CHAPTER 23 - None but the guilty can be long and completely miserable44
  • CHAPTER 24 - Fresh calamities45
  • CHAPTER 25 - No situation, however wretched it seems, but has some sort of comfort attending it46
  • CHAPTER 26 - A reformation in the gaol. To make laws complete, they should reward as well as punish47
  • CHAPTER 27 - The same subject continued49
  • CHAPTER 28 - Happiness and misery rather the result of prudence than of virtue in this life. Temporal evils or felicities being regarded by heaven as things merely in themselves trifling and unworthy its care in the distribution50
  • CHAPTER 29 - The equal dealings of providence demonstrated with regard to the happy and the miserable here below. That from the nature of pleasure and pain, the wretched must be repaid the balance of their sufferings in the life hereafter53
  • CHAPTER 30 - Happier prospects begin to appear. Let us be inflexible, and fortune will at last change in our favour54
  • CHAPTER 31 - Former benevolence now repaid with unexpected interest57
  • CHAPTER 32 - The Conclusion62
  • DOVER • THRIFT • EDITIONS63
Book details
  • Vendor Dover Publications
  • SKU 9780486110806
  • ISBN-13 9780486110806
  • Author Oliver Goldsmith
  • Category Fiction
  • Subject Classics

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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.