The Good-Natured Man
by Oliver Goldsmith
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Originally published in 1921 as part of the Cambridge Plain Texts series, this volume contains the full version of The Good-Natur'd Man, a comedic play by Anglo-Irish writer Oliver Goldsmith (1728-74). A short editorial introduction is also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in eighteenth-century literature and the works of Goldsmith.Tags
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Rating for the Librivox audiobook; 4 stars for the play itself. This full cast recording had a few members whom I found hard to listen to (due to either accent or the flow of the narration) so I ended up reading the play along with listening.
This play isn't quite as much fun as Goldsmith's more famous "She Stoops to Conquer" but had the same type of humor. I'm glad I discovered it! And as a result of wanting the text to go along with this audiobook, I also discovered a lovely illustrated "Works of Oliver Goldsmith" on Project Gutenberg :)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49325
This play isn't quite as much fun as Goldsmith's more famous "She Stoops to Conquer" but had the same type of humor. I'm glad I discovered it! And as a result of wanting the text to go along with this audiobook, I also discovered a lovely illustrated "Works of Oliver Goldsmith" on Project Gutenberg :)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49325
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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, show more 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. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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