The collected letters of Oliver Goldsmith
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The collected letters of Oliver Goldsmith
（Paperback re-issue）
Cambridge University Press, 2015, c1928
1st pbk. ed
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Reprint. Originally published: Cambridge : At the University Press, 1928
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Originally published in 1928, this book contains a collection of letters by the playwright and author Oliver Goldmith, author of She Stoops to Conquer and The Vicar of Wakefield, written between 1752 and 1774. Balderston includes letters which only exist in a fragmentary form, and includes doubtful and forged letters in appendices at the end. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Goldsmith's life and work.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: 1. Goldsmith and his family
- 2. The adventure upon Fiddleback
- 3. Goldsmith's East India plan
- 4. The Threnodia Augustalis
- 5. The production of She Stoops to Conquer
- 6. The text
- Letters
- Appendix I. Doubtful letters
- Appendix II. Forged letters
- Appendix III. The text of Mrs Hodson's narrative of Goldsmith's early life
- List of correspondents, alphabetically arranged
- Index.
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