Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith was a well known Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, dramatist and poet, who is noted for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer. He is thought by some to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765).
Books by Oliver Goldsmith
2 books available
The Vicar of Wakefield
by Oliver Goldsmith
3.5(9,085)
In a world of genteel poverty and unexpected troubles, the kind but naive Dr. Primrose faces misfortune, his Christian morality a guide against fate's twists.
She Stoops to Conquer
by Oliver Goldsmith
3.6(12,388)
In a delightful twist of fate, a quick-witted heiress masquerades as a barmaid to disarm a suitor whose shyness with gentlewomen is matched only by his audacious flirtations with commoners.