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Vicar. of. Wakefield. a As a book reviewer Goldsmith was necessarily a student of title pages . In one of his earliest reviews he thus rebukes the author of Memoirs of Sir Thomas Hughson , and Mr. Joseph Williams ; with the Remarkable ...
Vicar. of. Wakefield. a As a book reviewer Goldsmith was necessarily a student of title pages . In one of his earliest reviews he thus rebukes the author of Memoirs of Sir Thomas Hughson , and Mr. Joseph Williams ; with the Remarkable ...
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The Vicar of Wakefield is , as Clive Probyn says , “ a novel of mixed modes . " 21 As we are shown , in the first half of the book , the Vicar's descent into unworthiness , we are in a precisely and often very amusingly observed world ...
The Vicar of Wakefield is , as Clive Probyn says , “ a novel of mixed modes . " 21 As we are shown , in the first half of the book , the Vicar's descent into unworthiness , we are in a precisely and often very amusingly observed world ...
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A cogent demonstration of the analogies between The Vicar of Wakefield and the Book of Job . Bevis , Richard . The Laughing Tradition : Stage Comedy in Garrick's Day . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 1980.
A cogent demonstration of the analogies between The Vicar of Wakefield and the Book of Job . Bevis , Richard . The Laughing Tradition : Stage Comedy in Garrick's Day . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 1980.
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| Title | Oliver Goldsmith Revisited Issue 487 of Twayne's English authors series |
| Authors | Former Chair of English Peter Dixon, Peter Dixon |
| Contributor | Oliver Goldsmith |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Twayne Publishers, 1991 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0805770089, 9780805770087 |
| Length | 157 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Criticism / General |
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