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Title: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Condition: New Author: Laurence Sterne Format: Paperback EAN: 9781847494160 ISBN: 9781847494160 Publisher: Alma Classics Genre: Fiction Topic: Classic Fiction Release Date: 01/05/2015 Description: 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. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Item Height: 198mm Item Length: 128mm Book Series: Alma Classics Evergreens Release Year: 2015 Missing Information?
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