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Oliver Goldsmith

by Washington Irving

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Chapter One — Birth and Parentage…
  4. 4Chapter Two — Improvident Marriages in the Goldsmith Family…
  5. 5Chapter Three — Goldsmith Rejected by the Bishop…
  6. 6Chapter Four — Sallies Forth as a Law Student…
  7. 7Chapter Five — The Agreeable Fellow-Passengers…
  8. 8Chapter Six — Landing in England…
  9. 9Chapter Seven — Life Op a Pedagogue…
  10. 10Chapter Eight — Newbery, of Picture-Book Memory…
  11. 11Chapter Nine — Hackney Authorship…
  12. 12Chapter Ten — Oriental Appointment…
  13. 13Chapter Eleven — Publication of the Inquiry…
  14. 14Chapter Twelve — New Lodgings…
  15. 15Chapter Thirteen — Oriental Projects…
  16. 16Chapter Fourteen — Hogarth a Visitor at Islington…
  17. 17Chapter Fifteen — Johnson a Monitor to Goldsmith…
  18. 18Chapter Sixteen — New Lodgings…
  19. 19Chapter Seventeen — Publication of the Vicar of Wakefield…
  20. 20Chapter Eighteen — Social Position of Goldsmith — His Colloquial Co…
  21. 21Chapter Nineteen — Social Resorts…
  22. 22Chapter Twenty — The Great Cham of Literature and the King…
  23. 23Chapter Twenty-One — More Hack Authorship…
  24. 24Chapter Twenty-Two — Theatrical Maneuvering…
  25. 25Chapter Twenty-Three — Burning the Candle at Both Ends…
  26. 26Chapter Twenty-Four — Reduced Again to Book-Building…
  27. 27Chapter Twenty-Five — Dinner at Bickerstaff’s…
  28. 28Chapter Twenty-Six — Goldsmith in the Temple…
  29. 29Chapter Twenty-Seven — Honors at the Royal Academy…
  30. 30Chapter Twenty-Eight — Publication of the Deserted Village — Notice…
  31. 31Chapter Twenty-Nine — The Poet Among the Ladies…
  32. 32Chapter Thirty — Death of Goldsmith’s Mother…
  33. 33Chapter Thirty-One — Dinner at the Royal Academy…
  34. 34Chapter Thirty-Two — Marriage of Little Comedy…
  35. 35Chapter Thirty-Three — Dinner at General Oglethorpe’s — Anecdotes o…
  36. 36Chapter Thirty-Four — Mr. Joseph Cradock — An Author’s Confidings —…
  37. 37Chapter Thirty-Five — Broken Health…
  38. 38Chapter Thirty-Six — Invitation to Christmas…
  39. 39Chapter Thirty-Seven — Theatrical Delays…
  40. 40Chapter Thirty-Eight — A Newspaper Attack — The Evans Affray — John…
  41. 41Chapter Thirty-Nine — Boswell in Holy Week…
  42. 42Chapter Forty — Changes in the Literary Club — Johnson’s Objection…
  43. 43Chapter Forty-One — Dinner at the Dillys’…
  44. 44Chapter Forty-Two — Project of a Dictionary of Arts and Sciences…
  45. 45Chapter Forty-Three — Toil Without Hope…
  46. 46Chapter Forty-Four — A Return to Drudgery…
  47. 47Chapter Forty-Five — The Funeral — The Monument — The Epitaph — Con…

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