The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Alma Classics
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Alma Classics Evergreens
Release date:	May 2015
Authors:	Laurence Sterne
Dimensions:	198 x 128 x 40mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	608
ISBN-13:	978-1-84749-416-0
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	English
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > General Books > Fiction > Special features > Classic fiction
LSN:	1-84749-416-1
Barcode:	9781847494160

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