Tristram Shandy
- Hardcover
720 pages
- Release Date
29 November 1991
Summary
Laurence Sterne’s great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it, with a rich metafictional narrative that might classify it as the first ‘postmodern’ novel. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth and life of the unfortunate ‘hero’ Tristram Shandy, the eccentric philosophy of his father Walter, the amours and military obsessions of Uncle Toby, and a host of other characters, including Dr Slop, Corporal Trim…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781857150070 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1857150074 |
| Author: | Laurence Sterne |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 720 |
| Release Date: | 29 November 1991 |
| Weight: | 760g |
| Dimensions: | 208mm x 132mm x 42mm |
| Series: | Everyman's Library CLASSICS |
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About The Author
Laurence Sterne
Laurence Sterne was born in 1713, the younger son of a landowning Yorkshire family. He studied at Jesus College, Cambridge and was ordained in 1738. Sterne’s dramas were mostly personal, including bitter quarrels with his wife and uncle, and some high profile affairs. The publication of the first volumes of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy in 1759 made him famous throughout Europe overnight. He went on to complete the remaining volumes over the next seven years. Sterne died in 1768 of tuberculosis, the condition that had dogged him for many years.
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