The Vicar of Wakefield

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Author:

Goldsmith, Oliver

Read by:

Thorn, David
Full Cast Production Staff,
Supporting Cast Staff,

Adapted by:

Alcazar AudioWorks Staff,

Produced by:

Alcazar AudioWorks Staff,

Performed by:

Aylward, James
Kennedy, Kevin
King, Tim
McCarthy, Susan
Spiegel, Lou
Westaway, Laurelle

Composed by:

Bisner, Hans

ISBN:

978-0-7861-7609-0

Publication Date:

Mar 2006

Publisher:

Alcazar AudioWorks

Book Format:

CD-Audio

List Price:

USD $29.95

Book Description:

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.

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Book Details

Detailed Subjects:	Juvenile Fiction / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):	6.98 x 7.44 x 0.56 Inches
Book Weight:	0.22 Pounds

Author Biography

Goldsmith, Oliver (Author)

As Samuel Johnson said in his famous epitaph on his Irish-born and educated friend, Goldsmith ornamented whatever he touched with his pen. A professional writer who died in his prime, Goldsmith wrote the best comedy of his day, She Stoops to Conquer (1773).

Amongst a plethora of other fine works, he also wrote The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), which, despite major plot inconsistencies and the intrusion of poems, essays, tales, and lectures apparently foreign to its central concerns, remains one of the most engaging fictional works in English. One reason for its appeal is the character of the narrator, Dr. Primrose, who is at once a slightly absurd pedant, an impatient traditional father of teenagers, a Job-like figure heroically facing life's blows, and an alertly curious, helpful, loving person. Another reason is Goldsmith's own mixture of delight and amused condescension (analogous to, though not identical with, Laurence Sterne's in Tristram Shandy and Johnson's in Rasselas, both contemporaneous) as he looks at the vicar and his domestic group, fit representatives of a ludicrous but workable world.

Never married and always facing financial problems, he died in London and was buried in Temple Churchyard. 020

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