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The Citizen of the World

The Citizen of the World

Goldsmith, Oliver

Paperback

Letters & Essays

ISBN10: 1410204278
ISBN13: 9781410204271
Publisher: Intl Law & Taxation Publ
Published: Dec 31 2002
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.36 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Oriental letters being a literary fad of the day, it was inevitable that Oliver Goldsmith should indulge his whim of leaving scarcely any kind of writing untouched; hence his series of Letters from Lien Chi Altangi, the Chinese philosopher in London. These Chinese letters are in the strictest sense by a wide-experienced Citizen of the World. They photograph many a quaint character whose types are as familiar to us as his originals were to Goldsmith. The living portrait gallery will fit generations yet to come. Not characters only but movements, political and social, great problems in government, art, education, and taste are mirrored and discussed with a breadth and charm not found elsewhere. Goldsmith's many-sidedness is displayed in these Letters, which are occasionally elaborated in other of his writings.

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