The Chaplain of Wakefield
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers with Finnish reading ability who want to read public-domain classic novels
- Readers interested in eighteenth-century English literature and translation comparison
- Readers who enjoy first-person family narrative and gentle satire
Not a good fit for
- Readers who only read Chinese or English and are unfamiliar with Finnish
- Readers who want a scholarly annotated translation or detailed background notes
Reading tips
- Move chapter by chapter and sum up each chapter in one sentence to keep track of the narrative.
- Note shifts in the vicar's tone as narrator to appreciate the blend of humor and sentiment.
- If you know English, compare a few passages with the English original to see how the translation handles the language.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
Contents
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About the author
Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774) was an Irish-born English writer, poet and playwright. After graduating from Trinity College Dublin, he studied medicine in Edinburgh and Leiden, settled in London in 1756 and made his living by his pen. His work spans fiction, poetry and drama: the novel The Vicar of Wakefield portrays the joys and sorrows of a country clergyman's family with warm humour; the long poem The Deserted Village laments the decline of rural life; and the comedy She Stoops to Conquer builds its laughter on mistaken identity and social confusion and is still performed today. His writing is natural and humane, blending satire with sentiment, and remains an important voice in eighteenth-century English literature. The library holds twelve of his works.
