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Readings from Oliver Goldsmith collects selected prose and verse by Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774), the Anglo-Irish essayist, poet, novelist, and playwright who belonged to Samuel Johnson's famous Literary Club alongside Edmund Burke and Joshua Reynolds. Goldsmith is one of the few English writers to produce an enduring classic in three separate forms: the novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), the pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and the stage comedy She Stoops to Conquer (1773). Reader anthologies like this one circulated widely in schools and home libraries during the nineteenth century, when Goldsmith's plain, good-humored style was held up as a model of English prose. For students sampling his essays and poems before tackling the full works, this volume remains a convenient entry point. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.

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Oliver Goldsmith

The Vicar of Wakefield, printed in 1766, turned the ruin of a country clergyman into a fable both comic and sentimental, and stayed in print for two centuries. Its author was born on 10 November 1728 in Ireland, either near Ballymahon in County Longford or at Elphin, County Roscommon, the son of an Anglican curate.