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The comic masterpiece TRISTRAM SHANDY by Sterne is generally regarded as the progenitor of the 20th century novel. Set in the Shandy's small parlour and garden, the book, narrated by Tristram, consists of a plot frequently and flagrantly interrupted by digressions. tristram insists on beginning the book at the moment of his own conception, but provides no consistent thread or conclusion to his tale. Shrewd and Bawdy, he is filled with such vitality that his words can scarcely keep up with his headlong thought. The characters that people his account include his excitable father, Walter, Uncle Toby, the bewildered Mrs Shandy, impulsive Parson Yoric and Dr Slop, incompetent Physician. Impossible and hilarious Tristram Shandy defies definitions and turns conventions on their head even while laying the very foundations of great modern writing. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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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.
The comic masterpiece TRISTRAM SHANDY by Sterne is generally regarded as the progenitor of the 20th century novel. Set in the Shandy's small parlour and garden, the book, narrated by Tristram, consists of a plot frequently and flagrantly interrupted by digressions. tristram insists on beginning the book at the moment of his own conception, but provides no consistent thread or conclusion to his tale. Shrewd and Bawdy, he is filled with such vitality that his words can scarcely keep up with his headlong thought. The characters that people his account include his excitable father, Walter, Uncle Toby, the bewildered Mrs Shandy, impulsive Parson Yoric and Dr Slop, incompetent Physician. Impossible and hilarious Tristram Shandy defies definitions and turns conventions on their head even while laying the very foundations of great modern writing. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Synopsis
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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I Wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me;1 had they duly consider'd how much depended upon what they were then doing;-that not only the production of a rational Being was concern'd in it, but that possibly the happy formation and temperature2 of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind;-and, for aught they knew to the contrary, even the fortunes of his whole house might take their turn from the humours3 and dispositions which were then uppermost:- Had they duly weighed and considered all this, and proceeded accordingly,-I am verily persuaded I should have made a quite different figure in the world, from that, in which the reader is likely to see me. Read the first page
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I Wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me;1 had they duly consider'd how much depended upon what they were then doing;-that not only the production of a rational Being was concern'd in it, but that possibly the happy formation and temperature2 of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind;-and, for aught they knew to the contrary, even the fortunes of his whole house might take their turn from the humours3 and dispositions which were then uppermost:- Had they duly weighed and considered all this, and proceeded accordingly,-I am verily persuaded I should have made a quite different figure in the world, from that, in which the reader is likely to see me. Read the first page
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