The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith's hugely successful novel of 1766 remained for generations one of the most highly regarded and beloved works of eighteenth-century fiction.

A Companion to the Eighteenth-century Novel furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral contexts.
* An up-to-date resource for the study of the eighteenth-century novel.
* Furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral contexts.
* Foregrounds those topics of most historical and political relevance to the twenty-first century.