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Original Title:	The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
ISBN:	0141439777 (ISBN13: 9780141439778)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Tristram Shandy, Uncle Toby, Trim, Yorick, Mr. Shandy, Mrs. Shandy

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Paperback | Pages: 735 pages

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Title	:	The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Author	:	Laurence Sterne
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 735 pages
Published	:	2003 by Penguin Classics (first published 1760)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. Literature. 18th Century. Humor. Novels. European Literature. British Literature

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No one description will fit this strange, eccentric, endlessly complex masterpiece. It is a fiction about fiction-writing in which the invented world is as much infused with wit and genius as the theme of inventing it. It is a joyful celebration of the infinite possibilities of the art of fiction, and a wry demonstration of its limitations. This Penguin Classic contains Christopher Ricks's introductory essay, itself a classic of English literary criticism, together with a new introduction on the recent critical history and influence of Tristram Shandy by Melvyn New. The text and notes are based on the acclaimed Florida Edition, making the scholarship of the Florida editors readily available for the first time.

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Wittgenstein once noted that you could profitably write an entire work of philosophy that is comprised entirely of jokes. I wonder if he got the idea from Tristram Shandy (since he said it was one of his favourite books), because this is exactly what Sterne has done here. Because he has chosen humor as his medium, Sterne, like Shakespeare's tragically prophetic and misunderstood jester Yorick (who seems to be chosen by Sterne as his emblem, since he figures not just here but also in his A

If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.Keep On Trying: "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" by Laurence Sterne(Original Review, 2002-06-20)Many very good books are not difficult to read--at least for the people who read them and have read them. But books can become difficult when difference of culture, or viewpoint, or language, or elapsed time intervene. Dickens is more difficult now than 150 years ago, and part of the reward of reading Dickens is the

This edition from Visual Editions expands upon, or at least emphasises, the typographical fancies Sterne deployed for his maddening nine-book digressive epic. Combining black and red font effects (all the dashes and chapter titles are in red), with unique artistic stunts (the infamous black page is replaced by a strikethrough design, various font frolics are exaggerated in amusing ways, and one page includes a moisture effect using semi-laminate bubbles over the text), the book isnt perhaps as

Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another? Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, GentlemanA POEM IN WHICH IS A CELEBRATION BY NEGATIONor, a repartee on jeopardy.If on a friends bookshelfYou cannot find Joyce or SterneCervantes, Rabelais, or Burton,You are in danger, face the fact,So kick him first or punch him hardAnd from him hide behind a curtain. Alexander Theroux*I was (of course) destined to

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is a novel that is somehow greatly entertaining and impossibly infuriating at the same time.Tristram, our narrator and author, is quite partial to tangents. Actually, no. A true tangent has to touch the circle at one point. Tristram completely bypasses the circle. This is a novel about a man trying to write a novel. However, he is quite easily distracted. Just when there's a bare semblance of a plot, Tristram goes off on a reel about something

I would like to dedicate the following old review to a much missed GR friend, Bird Brian, who appears as a character in my review. He provided us with many hours of free entertainment with his great rants against every possible aspect of capitalism and the American government. But 50% of him left when Amazon bought GR, and the rest of him disappeared when the censorship controversy splurged all over our heads. And now he is not here to excoriate all the bad people and discover all the

- A glorious comedy of errors,- A story on storytellers and storytelling,- A riot of authorial asides, silly interruptions and hilarious direct adresses to you reader,- A portrait of the writer as an outstanding conversationalist :)Soundtrack : Lillibullero - Barry Lyndon OST