THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD

BY

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY
EDNA H. L. TURPIN, EDITOR OF THE
SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY PAPERS IN
THE SPECTATOR, EMERSON'S ESSAYS,
AND THE DESERTED VILLAGE

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HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

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Merrill's English Texts

THIS series of books will include in complete editions
those masterpieces of English Literature that are best adapted
for the use of schools and colleges. The editors of the
several volumes will be chosen for their special qualifications
in connection with the texts to be issued under their indi-
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of the classroom, no less than sound scholarship, will char-
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In connection with each text, a critical and historical
introduction, including a sketch of the life of the author and
his relation to the thought of his time, critical opinions of
the work in question chosen from the great body of English
criticism, and, where possible, a portrait of the author, will
be given. Ample explanatory notes of such passages in the
text as call for special attention will be supplied, but irrel-
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rigidly excluded.

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COPYRIGHT, 1906,

BY MAYNARD, MERRILL, & CO.

THIS EDITION

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M. VON V.

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