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Citizen of the World, The
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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature
Date: 20000101
Author:ROBERT WELCH
Citizen of the World, The
(1762), a series of over 100 loosely-linked essays in letter form, written by Oliver Goldsmith under the pseudonym of ‘ Lien Chi Altangi’ , first printed in The Public Ledger (1760–1). Lien Chi purports to be a philosophically-minded visitor to England whose letters home describe the manners of the country.Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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