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Auction Ends: 12/15/00

High Bidder: gfajuri@umich.edu

Seller: Ye Old eBay Web Masters

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The Vicar of Wakefield is the story of a kindly reverend who, having lost his fortune, relocates his family and tries to live a peaceful life. However, many trials befall him and his family, and only his unswerving faith aids virtue to win out in the end. This book is openly sentimental but also gaily humorous, with a charm that has endured for generations of readers. This novel follows on the heels of the author's successful tome, The Traveller, which quickly ran into some four editions. At the time of Goldsmith's death in 1774, the book had run into another five editions, for a total of nine. His writing is obviously pleasing to the mind of the populous Empire, is it not? The Traveller, however, was much more of a large book of essays than anything else - this volume is much more the novel as opposed to the dry writing of that popular tome. All the more reason to bid on this auction. Who hasn't desired a comfortable chair, spare time and a wonderful volume of fiction at one time or another. The tale spun by Goldsmith in this book is at the same time amusing and educational in the moral sense. It makes insightful (and some might say inflammatory) comments about the clergy and the kinds of things that the people in England place value on. It gives readers a glimpse of what exactly one slice of life might be like for people like the kindly reverend, the book's main character. To date, the book has not done well financially speaking, despite going through four editions. This is no indication of the quality of the volume, but simply proof that its publishers haven't the faintest idea of what sort of work they have on their hands. Bid now, bid often, win the auction and find out what the rest of the world has been missing out on. The Vicar of Wakefield is worth your time. And pounds.

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