Vicar of Wakefield, The
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0460012959
ISBN 13
9780460012959
Category
Fiction/Littérature
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Publication Year
1973
Publisher
Pages
240
Abstract
The story opens in the country parsonage of Dr. Primrose, a kindly man who has a good heart, a good family, and a good income. Suddenly, his idyllic life is cruelly devastated by a series of misfortunes, and he ends up in prison. Yet, despite all this calamity and injustice, the vicar never loses sight of Christian morality, a conviction which lends him genuine nobility and, in the end, also brings justice and the restoration of his family and fortune.
Through this simple, almost fairy-tale plot, Goldsmith gives us a charming comedy. It is not a novel of sentiment but an artful send-up of many of the familiar literary conventions of his day: the pastoral scene, the artificial romance, the unquestioning stoic bravery of the hero; all culminating, of course, in a gloriously improbable denouement.
Through this simple, almost fairy-tale plot, Goldsmith gives us a charming comedy. It is not a novel of sentiment but an artful send-up of many of the familiar literary conventions of his day: the pastoral scene, the artificial romance, the unquestioning stoic bravery of the hero; all culminating, of course, in a gloriously improbable denouement.
Description
Roman classique anglais
Number of Copies
1
