" It's true that The Vicar of Wakefield is in many ways, a not very good book. Certainly the plot is silly and full of holes. You get all the implausible coincidences and mistaken identities of a Dickens book, but none of Dickens' magnificent, if idiosyncratic, English, or memorable characters. Yet Goldsmith's style has an easy, simple charm of its own, and the fact that the book knows it's silly and asks the reader to go along with it anyway makes it impossible not to like. "
— Raisu, 2/1/2014