Oliver GoldsmithHarold Bloom Essays of literary criticism on the works of the eighteenth-century writer who engaged in a wide variety of occupations before embarking on a literary career. |
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The Novel of Manners | 7 |
The Sentimentality of The Vicar of Wakefield | 15 |
The Citizen of the World | 21 |
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