Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Goldsmith’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the novel, plays and other texts
* ALL the plays, with individual contents tables
* Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry
* Goldsmith’s rare children’s tale THE HISTORY OF LITTLE GOODY TWO-SHOES
* Includes Goldsmith’s essays
* Many rare non-fiction works appearing in digital print for the first time
* Features four biographies – discover Goldsmith’s literary life
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
CONTENTS:
The Novel
THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD
The Plays
THE GOOD-NATUR’D MAN
SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER
The Children’s Tale
THE HISTORY OF LITTLE GOODY TWO-SHOES
The Poems
LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
The Non-Fiction
AN ENQUIRY INTO THE PRESENT STATE OF POLITE LEARNING IN EUROPE
THE CITIZEN OF THE WORLD
THE LIFE OF RICHARD NASH OF BATH
THE MYSTERY REVEALED
THE MARTIAL REVIEW
AN HISTORY OF ENGLAND, IN A SERIES OF LETTERS FROM A NOBLEMAN TO HIS SON
THE HISTORY OF ROME
THE LIFE OF HENRY LORD VISCOUNT BOLINGBROKE
THE LIFE OF THOMAS PARNELL, D.D. ARCHDEACON OF CLOGHER
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND: FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE DEATH OF GEORGE II
DR. GOLDSMITH’S ROMAN HISTORY ABRIDGED BY HIMSELF FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS
AN HISTORY OF THE EARTH AND ANIMATED NATURE
THE GRECIAN HISTORY
AN ABRIDGMENT OF THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND
DR. GOLDSMITH’S HISTORY OF GREECE, ABRIDGED, FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS
A SURVEY OF EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY
The Essays
THE BEE: BEING ESSAYS ON THE MOST INTERESTING SUBJECTS
MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS
ESSAYS BY MR. GOLDSMITH: COLLECTA REVIRESCUNT
The Biographies
OLIVER GOLDSMITH: A BIOGRAPHY by Washington Irving
OLIVER GOLDSMITH by Henry Francis Cary
OLIVER GOLDSMITH by E. S. LANG Buckland
INTRODUCTION TO OLIVER GOLDSMITH by Austin Dobson
