The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Author(s): Laurence Sterne

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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 - 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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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.

General Fields

  • : 9781847494160
  • : Alma Classics
  • : 0.48
  • : March 2015
  • : 1.53 Inches X 5.14 Inches X 7.84 Inches
  • : United Kingdom
  • : June 2015
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 608
  • : 823.6
  • : English
  • : 1507
  • : Paperback
  • : Laurence Sterne