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The Vicar of Wakefield (Unabridged)
Publisher: Audio Book Contractors, Inc.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Audio lenght: 5 hours and 44 min.
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 fairytale plot, Goldsmith gives us a charming comedy. It is not a novel of sentiment but rather 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.
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