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Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth and life of the unfortunate 'hero' Tristram Shandy, the eccentric philosophy of his father Walter, the amours and military obsessions of Uncle Toby, and a host of other characters.
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Contemplative, comic, open-ended and prestige.
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Laurence Sterne
- First published
- 1760
- Pages
- 526
- Publisher
- INAPRESS, Collins, Blackwell
- Editions
- 85
- Language
- German, French, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9780460016179
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Laurence Sterne was an Irish-born English novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He is best known for his novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy; but he also published many sermons, wrote memoirs, and was involved in local politics. Sterne died in London after years of fighting consumption. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Sterne
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