❞ قصة The Vicar of Wakefield ❝ ⏤ Oliver Goldsmith

هذا القسم يحتوي علي العديد من القصص والروايات باللغة الإنجليزية

(Stories and novels) القصص والروايات
الرواية هي سرد نثري طويل يصف شخصيات خيالية أو واقعية وأحداثاً على شكل قصة متسلسلة، كما أنها أكبر الأجناس القصصية من حيث الحجم وتعدد الشخصيات وتنوع الأحداث، وقد ظهرت في أوروبا بوصفها جنساً أدبياً مؤثراً في القرن الثامن عشر، والرواية حكاية تعتمد السرد بما فيه من وصف وحوار وصراع بين الشخصيات وما ينطوي عليه ذلك من تأزم وجدل وتغذيه الأحداث
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally written in prose form, and which is typically published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the Italian novella for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the Latin novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of novellus, diminutive of novus, meaning "new". Walter Scott made a distinction between the novel, in which (as he saw it) "events are accommodated to the ordinary train of human events and the modern state of society" and the romance, which he defined as "a fictitious narrative in prose or verse; the interest of which turns upon marvellous and uncommon incidents". However, many such romances, including the historical romances of Scott, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, are also frequently called novels, and Scott describes romance as a "kindred term". This sort of romance is in turn different from the genre fiction love romance or romance novel
A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a "single effect" or mood.

A dictionary definition is "an invented prose narrative shorter than a novel usually dealing with a few characters and aiming at unity of effect and often concentrating on the creation of mood rather than plot."

The short story is a crafted form in its own right. Short stories make use of plot, resonance, and other dynamic components as in a novel, but typically to a lesser degree. While the short story is largely distinct from the novel or novella (a shorter novel), authors generally draw from a common pool of literary techniques.

The Vicar of Wakefield
I was ever of opinion, that the honest man who married and
brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population. From this motive,
I had scarce taken orders a year before I began to think seriously
of matrimony, and chose my wife as she did her wedding gown,
not for a fine glossy surfaces but such qualities as would wear
well. To do her justice, she was a good-natured notable woman;
and as for breeding, there were few country ladies who could
shew more. She could read any English book without much
spelling, but for pickling, preserving, and cookery, none could
excel her. She prided herself also upon being an excellent contriver in house-keeping; tho’ I could never find that we grew
richer with all her contrivances. However, we loved each other
tenderly, and our fondness encreased as we grew old. There was
in fact nothing that could make us angry with the world or each
other. We had an elegant house, situated in a fine country, and
a good neighbourhood. The year was spent in moral or rural
amusements; in visiting our rich neighbours, and relieving such
as were poor.