Book
The Vicar of Wakefield
- Published
- 1766
- Genre
- Classics
- Pages
- 197
- Words
- 73308
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112510.The_Vicar_of_Wakefield?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_23
Reading measures
- Lexile
- 1290L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 14–17
- Ambleside year
- Year 9 onwards · ages 14–17
An Ambleside year is a year of the Ambleside Online programme, not a reader's age. Year 0 is its first year, and a book used over several years shows the span. The ages beside it are that band offered two grades up and none down, which is how we offer a band; they are a placement, not a reading measure.
Oliver Goldsmith's hugely successful novel of 1766 remained for generations one of the most highly regarded and beloved works of eighteenth-century fiction. It depicts the fall and rise of the Primrose family, presided over by the benevolent vicar, the narrator of a fairy-tale plot of impersonation and deception, the abduction of a beautiful heroine and the machinations of an aristocratic villain. By turns comic and sentimental, the novel's popularity owes much to its recognizable depiction of domestic life and loving family relationships.
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780140431599
- ISBN-10
- 0140431594
Tags
Family LifeFictionHumor