The Vicar of Wakefield

There are an hundred faults in this Thing and an hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. But it is needless. A book may be amusing with numerous errors or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. The hero of this piece unites in himself the three greatest characters upon earth; he is a priest an husbandman and the father of a family. He is drawn as ready to teach and ready to obey as simple in affluence and majestic in adversity.