The Citizen of the World de Oliver Goldsmith

The Citizen of the World

Oliver Goldsmith

James Watt

The Citizen of the World uses the letters written home by an imaginary Chinese philosopher, Lien Chi Altangi, to provide an estranged perspective – both naïve and critical – on the imperial metropolis and the transformation of British society across the eighteenth century.

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	Preț	Express
Paperback (2)	135^.59 lei 6-8 săpt.
University Press of the Pacific – 30 noi 2002	135^.59 lei 6-8 săpt.
Fredonia Books (NL) – 29 feb 2004	232^.34 lei 6-8 săpt.
Hardback (1)	1134^.09 lei 3-5 săpt.
Cambridge University Press – 9 ian 2025	1134^.09 lei 3-5 săpt.

Preț

Express

Paperback (2)

135^.59 lei 6-8 săpt.

University Press of the Pacific – 30 noi 2002

135^.59 lei 6-8 săpt.

Fredonia Books (NL) – 29 feb 2004

232^.34 lei 6-8 săpt.

Hardback (1)

1134^.09 lei 3-5 săpt.

Cambridge University Press – 9 ian 2025

1134^.09 lei 3-5 săpt.

Notă biografică

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.