Author: Laurence SternePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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: Henry FieldingLaurence 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.
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.
Author: Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Author: Laurence SternePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781456334543
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is a classic story by Laurence Sterne. This book includes all 10 volumes published initially separately. As its title suggests, the book is Tristram's narration of his life story, but he cannot explain anything simply, and this is one of the main jokes of the book: He must make explanatory diversions to add context and color to his tale.
Author: Liam WilliamsLaurence Sterne
Author: Ian Campbell RossPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Laurence Sterne was in his mid-forties when the publication of Tristram Shandy catapulted him from obscurity into unprecedented literary fame. The story of how a provincial clergyman became the most fashionable writer of his day is extraordinary, and all the more remarkable for having beenengineered by its subject. 'I wrote not to be fed, but to be famous', Laurence Sterne declared of his comic masterpiece, and in order to achieve his ambition he became an assiduous networker, as astute a self-publicist as any modern author could hope to be. Shocked critics of Tristram Shandydenounced his bawdy novel as a scandal to the cloth but Sterne revelled in the celebrity his age's obsession with novelty and fashion allowed him. He at last found compensation for a life characterized by alternating moods of gaiety and gloom. Unhappily married to a woman who suffered a nervousbreakdown and at one time believed herself to be the Queen of Bohemia, Sterne became notorious for his sexual and sentimental liaisons with other women. His second book, A Sentimental Journey, transmuted his experiences into literary expressions of moral feeling. Dependent for so much of his life on patrons, it was the patronage of the reading public that was to secure his livelihood. Tristram Shandy remains one of the most innovative and influential novels in world literature, and Ian Campbell Ross makes full use of important new materials to examineSterne's life and career and the cult of the celebrity author.
