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A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings by Laurence Sterne
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Love is nothing without feeling. And feeling is still less without love.' Celebrated in its own day as the progenitor of 'a school of sentimental writers', A Sentimental Journey (1768) has outlasted its many imitators because of the humour and mischievous eroticism that inform Mr Yorick's travels. Set ...Show more
Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
This title comes with a new introduction by Tom Mccarthy. Doomed to become the 'sport of fortune' by an interruption at the crucial moment of conception, Tristram Shandy's life lurches from one mishap to another: his nose crushed by the doctor's forceps during birth, christened with the wrong name, an u ...Show more
Sentimental Journey by STERNE LAURENCE
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics
A furiously witty response to Tobias Smollett's curmudgeonly "Travels through France and Italy", Laurence Sterne's "A Sentimental Journey" through France and Italy became a hugely influential work of travel writing in its own right. This "Penguin Classics" edition includes an introduction and notes by P ...Show more
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
Category: Classic Fiction
A lot of nonsense is written about Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - and that's just as well. It would be depressing in the extreme if this triumphant tangling up of the threads of reason with the strands of linear narrative were to admit of any effective unravellin ...Show more
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Read, read, read, read, my unlearned reader! read...' Sterne's great comic novel is the fictional autobiography of Tristram Shandy, a hero who fails even to get born in the first two volumes. It contains some of the best-known and best-loved characters in English literature, including Uncle Toby, Cor ...Show more
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
Category: Fiction | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Purporting to be an autobiography of the antihero Tristram Shandy, Lawrence Sterne's novel is a comic masterpiece of digression, egoism and sensationalism, as its hilarious asides, explanations and host of memorable secondary characters - such as Uncle Toby, Dr Slop, Parson Yorick and Widow Wadman - tak ...Show more
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Martin Rowson; Laurence Sterne
Category: Biography
A novel about writing a novel is the subject of this complex classic which has been described as the greatest shaggy dog story in the English language.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
Category: Classic
One of the greatest novels ever written, now in a wonderful new clothbound editionLaurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth and life of the unfortunate 'h ...Show more
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Endlessly digressive, boundlessly imaginative and unmatched in its absurd and timeless wit, Laurence Sterne's "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" is edited with an introduction by Melvin New and Joan New, and includes a critical essay by Christopher Ricks in "Penguin Classics". Laurenc ...Show more
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is a huge literary paradox, for it is both a novel and an anti-novel. As a comic novel replete with bawdy humour and generous sentiments, it introduces us to a vivid group of memorable characters, variously eccentric, farcical and end ...Show more
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
This bawdy, high-spirited novel--whose author, Laurence Sterne, was described by Diderot as "the Rabelais of the English"--provoked a literary scandal when its first two volumes were published in 1759. A masterpiece of narrative absurdity, ribald humor, and philosophical playfulness, Tristram Shandy is ...Show more
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'I am got, I know not how, into a cold unmetaphorical vein of infamous writing, and cannot take a plumb-lift out of it for my soul; so must be obliged to go on writing like a Dutch commentator to the end of the chapter, unless something be done...' Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and ...Show more
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