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By (author) Sterne Laurence
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Introduces us to a group of memorable characters, variously eccentric, farcical and endearing. This book involves the reader in the labyrinthine creation of a purported autobiography. It anticipates modernism and postmodernism.
Purporting to be an autobiography of the antihero Tristram Shandy, Laurence 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 – take centre stage, at the expense of the actual life events the book sets out to depict.A humorous compendium of European thought and literature – pastiching the likes of Locke and Bacon and referencing Pope, Swift, Cervantes and Rabelais – emerges amid the convoluted accounts of Tristram”s conception, misnaming and accidental circumcision by a sash window, in a shrewd narrative that examines the role and nature of language itself.
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Sterne was the greatest impressionist of his time. — Joseph Conrad
Biographical note
Laurence Sterne (1713-68) was an Irish-born Anglican minister. He is most famous for his novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy.
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Ideal for students, only £5.99
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Beautiful package with spot-UV and super-matt lamination
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One of the world’s most popular classics
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Includes ‘A Political Romance’, a rare and little-known piece of satire by Sterne
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