Author: Oliver GoldsmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith
Author: Oliver GoldsmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Good-natured Man
Author: Oliver GoldsmithWORKS OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH,
Author: OLIVER. GOLDSMITHPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033559048
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Oliver Goldsmith
Author: Washington IrvingThe Works of Oliver Goldsmith
Author: Oliver GoldsmithPublisher:
ISBN: 9781019520833
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Discover the literary genius of Oliver Goldsmith with this comprehensive collection. From his acclaimed poems to his popular plays, this book showcases the breadth and depth of Goldsmith's talent. The Bee and Cock-Lane Ghost add a humorous touch to proceedings, ensuring there's something for everyone in this volume. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Brothers of the Quill
Author: Norma ClarkePublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674968743
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Oliver Goldsmith arrived in England in 1756 a penniless Irishman. He toiled for years in the anonymity of Grub Street—already a synonym for impoverished hack writers—before he became one of literary London’s most celebrated authors. Norma Clarke tells the extraordinary story of this destitute scribbler turned gentleman of letters as it unfolds in the early days of commercial publishing, when writers’ livelihoods came to depend on the reading public, not aristocratic patrons. Clarke examines a network of writers radiating outward from Goldsmith: the famous and celebrated authors of Dr. Johnson’s “Club” and those far less fortunate “brothers of the quill” trapped in Grub Street. Clarke emphasizes Goldsmith’s sense of himself as an Irishman, showing that many of his early literary acquaintances were Irish émigrés: Samuel Derrick, John Pilkington, Paul Hiffernan, and Edward Purdon. These writers tutored Goldsmith in the ways of Grub Street, and their influence on his development has not previously been explored. Also Irish was the patron he acquired after 1764, Robert Nugent, Lord Clare. Clarke places Goldsmith in the tradition of Anglo-Irish satirists beginning with Jonathan Swift. He transmuted troubling truths about the British Empire into forms of fable and nostalgia whose undertow of Irish indignation remains perceptible, if just barely, beneath an equanimous English surface. To read Brothers of the Quill is to be taken by the hand into the darker corners of eighteenth-century Grub Street, and to laugh and cry at the absurdities of the writing life.
Goldsmith's The Deserted Village
Author: Oliver GoldsmithThe Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith
Author: Oliver GoldsmithPoems, Plays and Essays
Author: Oliver GoldsmithShe Stoops To Conquer
Author: Oliver GoldsmithPublisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
"She Stoops to Conquer" is a comedy play written by the Anglo-Irish playwright Oliver Goldsmith. It was first performed in London in 1773. The play is a classic of English literature and is known for its humor, wit, and exploration of social class distinctions. The plot revolves around the attempts of two young men, Marlow and Hastings, to court the wealthy Miss Kate Hardcastle and her cousin Constance Neville. Mistaken identities, misunderstandings, and comedic situations ensue when Marlow mistakes the Hardcastle home for an inn and behaves differently towards Kate than he does towards ladies of his own class. The title, "She Stoops to Conquer," refers to the central plot point where Kate pretends to be a barmaid to win over Marlow, who is shy and awkward around upper-class women but more confident with women of lower social status.