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We recently purchased a large collection of Easton Press books to be listed in the coming weeks. Stay tuned for the chance to pick up some collectible titles. This text is included in the Easton Press series The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written . Published in 1978, bound in handsome Navy Blue leather, and beautifully illustrated by T. M. Cleland, this edition would be a worthy addendum to your collectables library. Specifics of this series from the Easton Press website: Fully and tightly bound in genuine leather. 22kt gold accents deeply inlaid on the "hubbed" spine. Heavy duty binding boards... . Superbly printed on acid-neutral paper... . Sewn pages – not just glued like ordinary books. ...moiré endpages and a satin-ribbon page marker. Gilded page ends. ******************************************************************************************************************************** "This charming comedy has delighted audiences for over two centuries. First performed in 1773, it concerns Kate Hardcastle, a young lady who poses as a serving girl to win the heart of a young gentleman too shy to court ladies of his own class. A number of delightful deceits and hilarious turns of plot must be played out before the mating strategies of both Kate Hardcastle and her friend Constance Neville conclude happily. Along the way, there is an abundance of merry mix-ups, racy dialogue and sly satire of the sentimental comedies of Goldsmith's day. The extraordinary humor and humanity with which Goldsmith invested this play have made it one of the most read, performed, and studied of all English comedies." ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was a well-known Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, dramatist and poet, noted for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773). He is thought by some to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765). . . . Goldsmith's friend and contemporary Samuel Johnson greatly admired the play { She Stoops to Conquer }. James Boswell quoted him as saying, "I know of no comedy for many years that has so much exhilarated an audience that it has answered so much the great end of comedy – making an audience merry". The above text was taken from, respectively, Dover Publications (via Google Books) and Wikipedia. [Goldsmith, Oliver. She Stoops to Conquer. United Kingdom: Dover Publications, 1991.]