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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

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