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Country vicar Dr. Primrose has a good heart, a good family and a good income, but suddenly, his idyllic life is cruelly devastated by a series of misfortunes. Despite all the calamity, however, he never loses sight of Christian morality, and this eventually brings him justice and the restoration of his family and fortune. Through this simple, almost fairy-tale plot, Goldsmith gives us a charming comedy; not a novel of sentiment, but an artful send-up of many of the familiar literary conventions of his day.
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"The hero of this piece unites himself in the three greatest characters upon earth; he is a priest, a husbandman, and the father of a family."
Oliver Goldsmith
"We return to it again and again, and bless the memory of an author who contrives so well to reconcile us to human nature."
Sir Walter Scott