Citizen Of The World (1834) - Goldsmith, Oliver
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Citizen of the World is a collection of letters written by the Irish author, Oliver Goldsmith, and published in 1762. The letters are written from the perspective of a Chinese traveler named Lien Chi Altangi, who observes and comments on English society and culture. The letters cover a range of topics including politics, religion, fashion, and social customs. Through Lien Chi's observations, Goldsmith provides a satirical and critical commentary on English society, highlighting its flaws and contradictions. The book is considered a significant work of 18th-century literature and is known for…mehr

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Citizen of the World is a collection of letters written by the Irish author, Oliver Goldsmith, and published in 1762. The letters are written from the perspective of a Chinese traveler named Lien Chi Altangi, who observes and comments on English society and culture. The letters cover a range of topics including politics, religion, fashion, and social customs. Through Lien Chi's observations, Goldsmith provides a satirical and critical commentary on English society, highlighting its flaws and contradictions. The book is considered a significant work of 18th-century literature and is known for its wit, humor, and social commentary.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
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Oliver Goldsmith was an Anglo-Irish author, playwright, dramatist, and poet who lived from 10 November 1728 to 4 April 1774. Goldsmith claimed to a biographer that he was born on November 10, 1728, yet his exact birthdate and year are unknown. He was either born in the Smith Hill House in the vicinity of Elphin, County Roscommon, or at Pallas, close to Ballymahon, County Longford, Ireland. His schooling seems to have mostly given him a liking for expensive clothing, card games, Irish tunes, and playing the flute. Goldsmith, a perpetual debtor and gambling addict, wrote a ton for London's publishers while working as a hack writer on Grub Street. To publish his 1758 translation of the memoirs of the Huguenot Jean Marteilhe, he assumed the alias ""James Willington"" at this time. His contemporaries regarded him as envious, impulsive, and disorganized, with a history of planning to immigrate to America but failing because he missed his ship. The incorrect diagnosis of his kidney ailment before his untimely death in 1774 may have contributed to it. Goldsmith was laid to rest in London's Temple Church. At the location of his interment, a memorial honoring him had previously been erected, but it had been destroyed in a 1941 air strike.