Oliver Goldsmith
Born
in County Roscommon or County Longford, Ireland
November 10, 1730
Died
April 04, 1774
Genre
Influences
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She Stoops to Conquer
10 editions
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published
1773
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The Vicar of Wakefield
1895 editions
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published
1766
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The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes
230 editions
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published
1765
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The Deserted Village
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330 editions
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published
1770
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She Stoops to Conquer: And Other Comedies
by
4 editions
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published
1791
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The Deserted Village and Other Poems
2 editions
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published
1770
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An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog
57 editions
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published
1766
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She Stoops to Conquer / School for Scandal
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2 editions
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published
1966
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The Good-Natur'd Man
84 editions
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published
1884
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The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith
32 editions
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published
1923
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“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
― The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith
― The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith
“I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.”
― The Vicar of Wakefield
― The Vicar of Wakefield
Polls
October 2021 Old School Classics
Hunger by Knut Hamsun 1890, 158 pages
Washington Square by Henry James 1880, 240 pages
The Bhagavad Gita by Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa -400, 160 pages
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith 1766, 197 pages
Uncle Silas by J. Sheridan Le Fanu 1864, 477 pages
A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift 1704, 208 pages
Niels Lyhne by Jens Peter Jacobsen 1880, 187 pages
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