First published in 1766 and a perennial favourite since then, The Vicar of Wakefield is built around the naïve but loveable figure of Dr Primrose. He and his family live in rural bliss until disaster threatens to destroy their happiness: abduction, impoverishment and betrayal combine to lay them low, but a surprising figure brings hope when all seems lost.
Af Lord Byron, A.E. Housman, Walter Raleigh, A. C. Swinburne, Benjamin Franklin King, A. H. Clough, Thomas Hardy, W.S. Gilbert, Edward Lear, J.K. Stephen, William McGonagall, Lewis Carroll