This is the extended annotated edition including a detailed biographical primer on the life and works of the author. At Sunnyside, Irving wrote his “ Life of Oliver Goldsmith."" Putnam, the bookseller, had said to him one day : “Here is Foster's ' Life of Goldsmith ;' I think of republishing it."" “I once wrote a Memoir of Goldsmith,"" answered Irving, “ which was pre?xed to an edition of his works printed at Paris ; and I have thought of enlarging it and making it more perfect."" “ If you will do that,"" was the reply of the bookseller, “I shall not republish the Life by Foster."" Within three months afterward, Irving's “ Life of Goldsmith"" was ?nished and in press. It was so much superior to the original sketch, in the exactness of the particulars, the entertainment of the anecdotes, and the beauty of the style, that it was really a new work. There is no biographical memoir which carries forward the reader so delightfully and with so little tediousness of recital or re?ection. The read...
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