Oliver Goldsmith
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Born January 1, 1794
Died January 1, 1861 (67 years old)
St Andrews
63 books
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Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Anglo-Irish poet, novelist, playwright, and hack writer. He produced literary works in a variety of genres and is regarded among the most versatile writers of the Georgian era. His works are known for their realistic depictions of British society, and his comedy plays for the English stage are considered second in importance only to those of playwright William Shakespeare. Credited with introducing sentimentalism in English literature in 18th-century Great Britain, several of Goldsmith's publications are popular classics of the period, including his only novel, The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), and the comedy play She Stoops to Conquer (1773). He wrote the play The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and is additionally thought by commentators such as Washington Irving to have written the children's novel The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765), one of the earliest classical works of children's literature.
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Selected writings
John Reid Muir, Jules Supervielle, Grace Aguilar, Charles Waddell Chesnutt, Benjamin Franklin, George Herbert Mead, Thomas Browne, Jean Baudrillard, Thomas Cranmer, Galileo Galilei, Mazzini, Giuseppe, Sir Philip Sidney, John Ruskin, Antonin Artaud, Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin, Heinrich von Kleist, Orestes Augustus Brownson, James Clarence Mangan, William Hazlitt, Augusta Gregory, Thomas Aquinas, Paul Éluard, Blanche Edith Baughan, Benjamin N. Cardozo, Isaiah Berlin, Charles Olson, M. A. Kuzmin, Voltaire, Walter Raleigh, Rubén Darío, Thomas Jefferson, Francis Bacon, Tony Cliff, Roman Jakobson, Irving Howe, Augustine of Hippo, Edward Carpenter, Walter Benjamin, Meister Eckhart, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alexander von Humboldt, Connolly, James, Joseph Stalin, Oliver Goldsmith, Salvatore Quasimodo, Gérard de Nerval, Henri Michaux, Wilhelm Reich, George Edward Moore, Thomas More, Charles Williams, Leigh Hunt, Rémy de Gourmont, N. F. S. Grundtvig, Lancelot Andrewes, Denis Diderot, Izaak Walton, Blaise Cendrars, Robert Musil, Vita Sackville-West, Carl Gustav Jung, Hildegard Saint, Jules Laforgue, Émile Durkheim, Franz Baermann Steiner, Gerrard Winstanley, Wilhelm Dilthey, T. E. Hulme, Juan Ramón Jiménez, William James, Samuel Johnson, Charles Lamb
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Essays
Jeremy Collier, Umberto Eco, H. I. D. Ryder, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Walter Kasper, Béla Bartók, Clement Mansfield Ingleby, John Fiske, John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, Jean-Luc Nancy, Michael Pye, Octavio Paz, Sayyid Aḥmad K̲h̲ān̲, Joseph Addison, Algirdas Julien Greimas, Евгений Иванович Замятин, Henry F. (Henry Francis) Pelham, Arthur Christopher Benson, Grant, Percy Stickney, Charles Carroll Everett, Jean François Lyotard, Herbert Spencer, Raymond Williams, William Hazlitt, Giorgio Agamben, Alfred Kerr, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok, William Butler Yeats, William Graham Sumner, Allen Tate, James Beattie, J. H. Plumb, William Godwin, Francis Bacon, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Thomas Buckle, Arthur Schopenhauer, Herman Friedrich Grimm, John Addington Symonds, James Hadley, James Laughlin, Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, Irving Howe, E. M. W. Tillyard, Benjamin Rush, Plutarch, Morton Feldman, Simone Weil, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Howard Zinn, Ellen Key, Salisbury, Robert Cecil marquess of, J. Logie Robertson, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Henry Huxley, Arnold Zweig, Hugh Miller, Mackenzie, Morell Sir, George Orwell, Bing Xin, Roland Barthes, Errico Malatesta, George John Romanes, Parsons, Theophilus, Alice Meynell, Alejo Carpentier, Charles Baudelaire, Jacques Barzun, James Huneker, Thomas Paine, Thomas Merton, Jean-Paul Sartre, Montaigne, Michel de, David Hume, Paul Valéry, Félix Guattari, Wilhelm Max Wundt, Christopher Hill, Shen, Congwen, Italo Calvino, Robert Morgan, James Martineau, Abūlkalām Āzād, Friedrich Schiller, Rosemond Tuve, René Descartes, Immanuel Kant, Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Carl Gustav Jung, John Henry Newman, Thomas De Quincey, Virginia Woolf, Matthew Arnold, Frederic William Henry Myers, Ernst Troeltsch, Martin Buber, Hermann Bahr, Thomas Mann, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Jonathan Franzen, Samuel Johnson, Anscombe, G. E. M., Charles Lamb, George Brimley, John Abercrombie, Thomas Monro, Hubert Bland
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Selected works
Achim Wollscheid, Александр Исаевич Солженицын, Malachy Postlethwayt, Robert Louis Stevenson, Paracelsus, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Taylor, Jeremy, Anselm of Canterbury, Rudyard Kipling, Hermann von Helmholtz, Ziya Gökalp, Terrence McNally, Franz Kafka, Sergei Eisenstein, Voltaire, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, Galen, Ovid, Aristotle, Lucian of Samosata, Ben Jonson, Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, Arrian, Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki, Augustine of Hippo, Otto Rank, I. M. Sechenov, Joseph Stalin, Oliver Goldsmith, Benedictus de Spinoza, Carlo Goldoni, Sacheverell Sitwell, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Cicero, Ėmmanuil Kazakevich, Karl Abraham, Libanius, Lu Xun, Rainer Maria Rilke, Che Guevara, Z. N. Gippius, Eleanor Burford, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Ulrich Zwingli, Stendhal, William Blake, Максим Горький, Guillaume Apollinaire, Vladimir Il’ich Lenin, V. V. Stasov, Alfred Jarry, Papini, Giovanni, Leon Trotsky, Karl Marx
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An history of the earth, and animated nature
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Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
The Grecian history, from the earliest state to the death of Alexander the Great ...
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The History of Greece: From the Earliest State to the Death of Alexander the Great
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The History of Greece, from the Earliest State, to the Death of Alexander ..
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The citizen of the world, in a series of letters from a Chinese philosopher at London, to his friends in the east
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A history of England in a series of letters from a nobleman to his son
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Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Goldsmith's The vicar of Wakefield
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Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
An Enquiry Into the Present State of Polite Learning in Europe: By Oliver ..
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The Roman history, from the foundation of the City of Rome, to the destruction of the Western Empire
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The Martial Review: Or, a General History of the Late Wars; Together with the Definitive Treaty ..
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The present state of the British empire in Europe, America, Africa and Asia
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