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The Life and Opinions of Tristram ShandyLaurence Sterne
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First Publication: December 1759 to January 1767 Category: humorous novel Sales: ? |
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About the Book: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman was originally published in England in nine volumes acoss five installments from 1759 to 1767. The “great comic novel contains some of the best-known and best-loved characters in English literature – including Uncle Toby, Corporal Trim, Parson Yorick, and Dr. Slop – and boasts one of the most innovative and whimsical narrative styles in all literature.” AZ The “ingeniously structured novel (about writing a novel)” BN “provoked a literary sensation.” BN “At once endlessly facetious and highly serious” AZ it is “rich in playful double entendres, digressions, formal oddities, and typographical experiments” BN and “fascinates like a verbal game of chess.” BN It “is the most protean and playful English novel of the eighteenth century and a celebration of the art of fiction.” BN “Its inventiveness anticipates the work of Joyce, Rushdie, and Fuentes in our own century.” BN Resources and Related Links:
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