Laurence Sterne
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
This multi-volume comic masterpiece is a must-read for fans of literary humor writing. An inventive pastiche of a staggering array of eighteenth-century thinkers, writers, and artists, Tristram Shandy combines intellectual allusions with rollicking—and sometimes bawdy—humor.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is the story of Sterne's fictional travel through both countries, particularly France. Sterne made two trips within the continent, in 1762-64 and 1765-66, but the book is not about his errands, but those of parson Yorick's (a character in "Tristram Shandy"). With a less acid and outrageous humor than in his previous work, Sterne anyway mixes the picaresque with an ironic and, frequently, hilarious philosophical irony. Yorick begins by trying to...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 7
Everyman's library. Fiction volume no. 617
Modern library of the world's best books volume no. 147
Everyman's library. Fiction volume no. 617
Modern library of the world's best books volume no. 147
Language
English
Description
Presents the eighteenth-century comic novel in which Tristram Shandy, the narrator, attempts to tell the story of his life but becomes totally bogged down in tales of his eccentric family.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2006], c2005
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A rollicking, inventive adaptation of the notoriously unfilmable British comic novel The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman, written by Laurence Sterne. Shandy's warped tales reveal far more than any conventional autobiography.