Oliver Goldsmith

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Histoire De Francois Wills, Parts 1-2

Ou Le Triomphe De La Bienfaisance (1773)

Beschreibung

Histoire de Fran¿¿¿¿¿ois Wills, parties 1-2: ou le triomphe de la bienfaisance (1773) est un livre ¿¿¿¿¿crit par Goldsmith, Oliver. Cette ¿¿¿¿¿uvre raconte l'histoire de Fran¿¿¿¿¿ois Wills, un homme qui a consacr¿¿¿¿¿ sa vie ¿¿¿¿¿¿ aider les autres. Le livre est divis¿¿¿¿¿ en deux parties et suit la vie de Wills depuis son enfance jusqu'¿¿¿¿¿¿ sa mort. Au fil des pages, le lecteur d¿¿¿¿¿couvre comment Wills a utilis¿¿¿¿¿ sa fortune pour aider les pauvres et les malades, comment il a fond¿¿¿¿¿ des institutions pour les aider, et comment il a inspir¿¿¿¿¿ d'autres personnes ¿¿¿¿¿¿ faire de m¿¿¿¿¿¿me. L'histoire de Wills est un exemple de la bont¿¿¿¿¿ humaine et de la puissance de la bienfaisance. Ce livre est un classique de la litt¿¿¿¿¿rature anglaise et un t¿¿¿¿¿moignage ¿¿¿¿¿mouvant de la g¿¿¿¿¿n¿¿¿¿¿rosit¿¿¿¿¿ et de la compassion humaines.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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 566g
• ISBN-13: 9781104093686
• ISBN-10: 1104093685
• Artikelnr.: 26114098