The Vicar of Wakefield
The Vicar of Wakefield is the 1766 novel by Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774), the Anglo-Irish writer whose career produced verse, drama, journalism, and one short novel that became a Georgian and Victorian classic. The book tells the story of the Reverend Dr. Charles Primrose, a country clergyman who loses his fortune through a banking failure and watches his family endure a chain of disasters including the seduction of his elder daughter and his own imprisonment. The novel ends with the restoration of fortune and the punishment of the villain. The Vicar of Wakefield was one of the most-translated English novels of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and was read across Europe by writers including Goethe, who praised it warmly in Dichtung und Wahrheit. The book remains the most widely-read work by Goldsmith. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.
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| # | Chapter | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chapter 01 | 9:13 | |
| 2 | Chapter 02 | 8:11 | |
| 3 | Chapter 03 | 14:43 | |
| 4 | Chapter 04 | 7:28 | |
| 5 | Chapter 05 | 7:59 | |
| 6 | Chapter 06 | 7:28 | |
| 7 | Chapter 07 | 8:51 | |
| 8 | Chapter 08 | 11:45 | |
| 9 | Chapter 09 | 7:21 | |
| 10 | Chapter 10 | 9:03 | |
| 11 | Chapter 11 | 9:57 | |
| 12 | Chapter 12 | 10:43 | |
| 13 | Chapter 13 | 7:13 | |
| 14 | Chapter 14 | 12:47 | |
| 15 | Chapter 15 | 10:26 | |
| 16 | Chapter 16 | 11:35 | |
| 17 | Chapter 17 | 15:51 | |
| 18 | Chapter 18 | 9:20 | |
| 19 | Chapter 19 | 17:23 | |
| 20 | Chapter 20 | 30:18 | |
| 21 | Chapter 21 | 17:05 | |
| 22 | Chapter 22 | 8:15 | |
| 23 | Chapter 23 | 9:42 | |
| 24 | Chapter 24 | 9:41 | |
| 25 | Chapter 25 | 9:08 | |
| 26 | Chapter 26 | 10:16 | |
| 27 | Chapter 27 | 8:26 | |
| 28 | Chapter 28 | 20:49 | |
| 29 | Chapter 29 | 9:56 | |
| 30 | Chapter 30 | 15:55 | |
| 31 | Chapter 31 | 30:00 | |
| 32 | Chapter 32 | 6:31 |
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