Few novels portray good men, and far fewer allow them to tell their own stories. In Oliver Goldsmiths TheVicar of Wakefield, a flawed but good man tells the story of his moral regeneration through a series of Job-like trials. With prudence its theme, the novel is ultimately a harrowing story of redemption through suffering. Well received on its first publication in 1766, it averaged two editions a year throughout the nineteenth century and collected praise from writers such as Charles Dickens, Washington Irving, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
| ISBN: | 9781411430112 |
| Publication date: | 1st September 2009 |
| Author: | Oliver Goldsmith |
| Publisher: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | Ebook (Epub) |