Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey [electronic resource]
Laurence Sterne1999
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Tristram Shandy provoked a literary sensation when it first appeared in a series
of installments between 1759 and 1767. The ribald, high-spirited book prompted
Diderot to hail Sterne as 'the English Rabelais.' An ingeniously structured
novel (about writing a novel) that fascinates like a verbal game of chess,
Tristram Shandy is both a joyful celebration of the infinite possibilities of
the art of fiction and a wry demonstration of its limitations. Many view this
picaresque masterpiece as the precursor of the modern novel.
A Sentimental Journey, which came out in 1768, begins as a travelogue. Yet it
ends as a treasury of portraits, sketches, and philosophical musings, for as
Virginia Woolf observed: 'A Sentimental Journey, for all its levity and wit, is
based upon something fundamentally philosophic--the philosophy of pleasure.'
Main title:
Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey [electronic resource] / Laurence Sterne
Author:
Laurence Sterne, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Modern Library, 1999
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (752 pages)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780679641964
Language:
English
BRN:
437771
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