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The Vicar of Wakefield

Oliver Goldsmith

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1766
Pages
Pages 240

A country clergyman loses his fortune, a rakish squire ruins one of his daughters, and a fire and unpaid debts land him in prison. A neighbour turns out to be a nobleman and puts it all right.

When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray,
The Vicar of Wakefield, Oliver Goldsmith

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