Laurence Sterne
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English
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Mr. Yorick, the sentimental traveller, refrains from the customary reflections on monuments and landscapes. Instead, he focuses on his sweet and affectionate emotions, experiencing them everywhere he goes and with every creature who crosses his path - from bursts of sympathy for a caged bird and an abused donkey, to bonhomie among peasants at dinner and flirtation with women of every social degree. Closer in spirit to a novel than a travelogue, Mr....
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Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
This multi-volume comic masterpiece is a must-read for fans of literary humor writing. An inventive pastiche of a staggering array of eighteenth-century thinkers, writers, and artists, Tristram Shandy combines intellectual allusions with rollicking—and sometimes bawdy—humor.
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English
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"The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman", when originally published from 1759 to 1767, was an experimental novel far ahead of its time. The titular character, Shandy narrates the story of his life, beginning with his conception and focusing on his family, particularly his unconventional father Walter and his gentle Uncle Toby. One of the recurrent jokes in the novel, Shandy cannot explain anything concisely and Sterne utilizes many narrative...
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English
Description
Written after several years of traveling through France and Italy, Laurence Sterne wrote "A Sentimental Journey" as an account of his experiences abroad, and ultimately established travel writing as the dominant literary genre of the second half of the 18th century. This book is sometimes seen as an epilogue to his previous more famous work, "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman", but was immensely popular in its own right because of...
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Français
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Extrait: "Oh! ce sujet, dis-je, se traite avec bien plus de méthode en France. - Quoi! Vous auriez vu la France? répliqua mon interlocuteur avec vivacité en se tournant vers moi de l'air le plus civil et le plus triomphant. - Etrange prérogative, me dis-je à moi-même, que donne aux gens une traversée de vingt et un milles maritimes!"
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Français
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Extrait: "Je l'ai toujours dit: il aurait été à souhaiter que mon père ou ma mère, et pourquoi pas même tous deux, eussent apporté quelque attention à ce qu'ils faisaient, quand il plut de me donner l'existence. Ils y étaient obligés. Eh! pouvaient-ils réfléchir trop mûrement sur les conséquences qui devaient résulter de l'important ouvrage dont ils s'occupaient en ce moment!"
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English
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It is the story of Sterne's fictional travel through both countries, particularly France. Sterne made two trips within the continent, in 1762-64 and 1765-66, but the book is not about his errands, but those of parson Yorick's (a character in "Tristram Shandy"). With a less acid and outrageous humor than in his previous work, Sterne anyway mixes the picaresque with an ironic and, frequently, hilarious philosophical irony. Yorick begins by trying to...
10) Tristram Shandy
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Series
Everyman's library volume no. 7
Everyman's library. Fiction volume no. 617
Modern library of the world's best books volume no. 147
Everyman's library. Fiction volume no. 617
Modern library of the world's best books volume no. 147
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English
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Description
Presents the eighteenth-century comic novel in which Tristram Shandy, the narrator, attempts to tell the story of his life but becomes totally bogged down in tales of his eccentric family.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2006], c2005
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A rollicking, inventive adaptation of the notoriously unfilmable British comic novel The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman, written by Laurence Sterne. Shandy's warped tales reveal far more than any conventional autobiography.
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English
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The Harvard Fiction Classics represent a specific selection of the greatest novels, novellas and short stories of seven national literatures, namely: English, American, French, Spanish, German, Russian, and Scandinavian.
Table of Contents:
Vols. 1 & 2: The History of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
Vol. 3:
A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Vol. 4: Guy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott
Vol. 5 & 6: Vanity Fair by William...