Author: Laurence SternePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey
Author: Laurence SternePublisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0679641963
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Tristram Shandy provoked a literary sensation when it first appeared in a series of installments between 1759 and 1767. The ribald, high-spirited book prompted Diderot to hail Sterne as 'the English Rabelais.' An ingeniously structured novel (about writing a novel) that fascinates like a verbal game of chess, Tristram Shandy is both a joyful celebration of the infinite possibilities of the art of fiction and a wry demonstration of its limitations. Many view this picaresque masterpiece as the precursor of the modern novel. A Sentimental Journey, which came out in 1768, begins as a travelogue. Yet it ends as a treasury of portraits, sketches, and philosophical musings, for as Virginia Woolf observed: 'A Sentimental Journey, for all its levity and wit, is based upon something fundamentally philosophic--the philosophy of pleasure.'
Author: Laurence Sterne
Author: Henry Fielding
Author: Laurence SterneThe Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky
Author: Fyodor DostoevskyPublisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 030782408X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky's key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the novel. Exploring many of the same themes as in his longer works, these small masterpieces move from the tender and romantic White Nights, an archetypal nineteenth-century morality tale of pathos and loss, to the famous Notes from the Underground, a story of guilt, ineffectiveness, and uncompromising cynicism, and the first major work of existential literature. Among Dostoevsky's prototypical characters is Yemelyan in The Honest Thief, whose tragedy turns on an inability to resist crime. Presented in chronological order, in David Magarshack's celebrated translation, this is the definitive edition of Dostoevsky's best stories.
Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey
Author: W. B. GerardPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 168448278X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy continues to be as widely read and admired as upon its first appearance. Deemed more accessible than Sterne’s Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and often assigned as a college text, A Sentimental Journey has received its share of critical attention, but—unlike Tristram Shandy—to date it has not been the subject of a dedicated anthology of critical essays. This volume fills that gap with fresh perspectives on Sterne’s novel that will appeal to students and critics alike. Together with an introduction that situates each essay within A Sentimental Journey’s reception history, and a tailpiece detailing the culmination of Sterne’s career and his death, this volume presents a cohesive approach to this significant text that is simultaneously grounded and revelatory.
Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy
Author: Thomas KeymerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195175608
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Thomas Keymer's introduction to this casebook examines the historical context and controversial reception of Tristram Shandy, and connects the essays selected for inclusion to the diverse traditions of Sterne Criticism.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Author: Laurence SternePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781517013677
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
First published in nine volumes, in the period of seven years, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is a humorous novel by Laurence Sterne an probably his most enduring work. It purports to be a biography of the eponymous character using a style of digression and amplification. Regarded as one of the books you must read before you die, and an important piece of literature.
LIFE & OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SH
Author: Laurence SternePublisher: Engage Books
ISBN: 9781772263206
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
As Tristram Shandy narrates his life story, he is unable to explain anything simply. Throughout his memoir, Tristram as narrator finds himself discoursing at length on sexual practices, insults, the influence of one's name, and noses, siege warfare, and philosophy as he struggles to marshal his material and finish the story of his life.
