The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Paperback / softback
by Laurence Sterne
Part of the Alma Classics Evergreens series
Paperback / softback
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Purporting to be an autobiography of the antihero Tristram Shandy, Laurence 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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In Stock - Less than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:608 pages
- Publisher:Alma Books Ltd
- Publication Date:01/05/2015
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- ISBN:9781847494160
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In Stock - Less than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:608 pages
- Publisher:Alma Books Ltd
- Publication Date:01/05/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9781847494160
