Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Published: 2012-08
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781290491174
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Author: Oliver 1728-1774 Goldsmith
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Published: 2016-08-27
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781363696192
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-10-17
Total Pages: 562
ISBN-13: 9780265445624
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from Letters From a Citizen of the World to His Friends in the East Citizen OF the world.[the idea of depicting the manners of one's own country under the disguise of a foreign observer seems to have originated in France. The Turkish Spy led the way, and acquired extensive popularity all over Europe this was followed by Peruvian Letters, ' Persian Letters, ' Chinese Letters, ' and others, all with greater or lem credit, and ofi'ering the fairest encouragement to an English writer to pursue the same track. The genius, the humor, the good-nature of Goldsmith, seemed to fit him for the task: he had, moreover, himself been a traveller, and at the time when these Letters were produced, no doubt many circumstances in English life and manners appeared to him with somewhat of the novelty which he ascribes to the impressions of his imaginary oriental. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.