The Vicar Of Wakefield

by Oliver Goldsmith

Overview

The Vicar Of Wakefield is written in a comic and satire nature by Oliver Goldsmith. This amazing plot focuses on the family endurance of Dr. Primrose who resides in a peaceful neighborhood with his wife and children, including his daughters, Olivia, Sophia, and four sons, George is one of them. George is engaged to Arabella Wilmot, on the night of their wedding, the primrose family faces a major financial crisis as their investor has left the city then this wedding is canceled by Arabella's father. The family then moved to Squire Thornhill's property after George was sent to London. Then the family met Mr. Burchell, who saves Sophia from drowning and sparks their attraction. But, Mr. Primrose wants Thornhill to wed Sophia rather than Mr. Burchell, who is a poor man, however, was pleased that Thornhill is showing interest in Olivia. Eventually, Mr. Primrose learns that Thornhill has been misleading the family as his actions were putting this family into embarrassment. Olivia chooses to depart with him rather than marry Thornhill at the cost of her reputation. After many unfortunate events that ruin the family's reputation, the family was saved from disgrace and lived happily but how and who helped them? To know this suspense, the reader should go through The Vicar Of Wakefield!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789357482622
Publisher:	Double 9 Booksllp
Publication date:	01/02/2023
Pages:	158
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.37(d)

About the Author

Oliver Goldsmith was an Anglo-Irish author, playwright, dramatist, and poet who lived from 10 November 1728 to 4 April 1774. Goldsmith claimed to a biographer that he was born on November 10, 1728, yet his exact birthdate and year are unknown. He was either born in the Smith Hill House in the vicinity of Elphin, County Roscommon, or at Pallas, close to Ballymahon, County Longford, Ireland. His schooling seems to have mostly given him a liking for expensive clothing, card games, Irish tunes, and playing the flute. Goldsmith, a perpetual debtor and gambling addict, wrote a ton for London's publishers while working as a hack writer on Grub Street. To publish his 1758 translation of the memoirs of the Huguenot Jean Marteilhe, he assumed the alias ""James Willington"" at this time. His contemporaries regarded him as envious, impulsive, and disorganized, with a history of planning to immigrate to America but failing because he missed his ship. The incorrect diagnosis of his kidney ailment before his untimely death in 1774 may have contributed to it. Goldsmith was laid to rest in London's Temple Church. At the location of his interment, a memorial honoring him had previously been erected, but it had been destroyed in a 1941 air strike.

Table of Contents

1.	The description of the family of Wakefield; in which a kindred likeness prevails as well of minds as of persons	1
2.	Family misfortunes. The loss of fortune only serves to encrease the pride of the worthy	3
3.	A migration. The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found at last to be of our own procuring	6
4.	A proof that even the humblest fortune may grant happiness, which depends not on circumstance, but constitution	11
5.	A new and great acquaintance introduced. What we place most hopes upon generally proves most fatal	13
6.	The happiness of a country fire-side	16
7.	A town wit described. The dullest fellows may learn to be comical for a night or two	18
8.	An amour, which promises little good fortune, yet may be productive of much	21
9.	Two ladies of great distinction introduced. Superior finery ever seems to confer superior breeding	27
10.	The family endeavours to cope with their betters. The miseries of the poor when they attempt to appear above their circumstances	29
11.	The family still resolve to hold up their heads	32
12.	Fortune seems resolved to humble the family of Wakefield. Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities	35
13.	Mr. Burchell is found to be an enemy; for he has the confidence to give disagreeable advice	39
14.	Fresh mortifications, or a demonstration that seeming calamities may be real blessings	41
15.	All Mr. Burchell's villainy at once detected. The folly of being over-wise	45
16.	The family use art, which is opposed with still greater	49
17.	Scarce any virtue found to resist the power of long and pleasing temptation	52
18.	The pursuit of a father to reclaim a lost child to virtue	58
19.	The description of a person discontented with the present government, and apprehensive of the loss of our liberties	61
20.	The history of a philosophic vagabond, pursuing novelty, but losing content	67
21.	The short continuance of friendship amongst the vicious, which is coeval only with mutual satisfaction	76
22.	Offences are easily pardoned where there is love at bottom	82
23.	None but the guilty can be long and completely miserable	85
24.	Fresh calamities	88
25.	No situation, however wretched it seems, but has some sort of comfort attending it	91
26.	A reformation in the gaol. To make laws complete, they should reward as well as punish	94
27.	The same subject continued	97
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 distribution	100
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 hereafter	107
30.	Happier prospects begin to appear. Let us be inflexible, and fortune will at last change in our favour	110
31.	Former benevolence now repaid with unexpected interest	115
32.	The Conclusion	125