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Author : Henry Fielding
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ISBN 13 : 9780852291634
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling written by Henry Fielding and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laurence Sterne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
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Download or read book The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy written by Laurence Sterne and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laurence Sterne
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191606200
Total Pages : 320 pages
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Download or read book A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings written by Laurence Sterne and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2003-07-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Love is nothing without feeling. And feeling is still less without love.' Celebrated in its own day as the progenitor of 'a school of sentimental writers', A Sentimental Journey (1768) has outlasted its many imitators because of the humour and mischievous eroticism that inform Mr Yorick's travels. Setting out to journey to France and Italy he gets little further than Lyons but finds much to appreciate, in contrast to contemporary travel writers whom Sterne satirizes in the figures of Smelfungus and Mundungus. A master of ambiguity and double entendre, Sterne is nevertheless as concerned as his peers with exploring the nature of virtue; unlike other writers of sentimental fiction Sterne insists on the inseparability of desire and feeling. This new edition includes a selection from The Sermons of Mr Yorick, which shed light on the concerns of the Journey, The Journal to Eliza, which records Sterne's feelings as he languishes for the company of Eliza Draper, and A Political Romance, the satire on a local ecclesiastical squabble that was the catalyst for Sterne's literary career. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author : Ian Campbell Ross
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Laurence Sterne written by Ian Campbell Ross and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laurence Sterne was in his mid-forties when the publication of Tristram Shandy catapulted him from obscurity into unprecedented literary fame. The story of how a provincial clergyman became the most fashionable writer of his day is extraordinary, and all the more remarkable for having beenengineered by its subject. 'I wrote not to be fed, but to be famous', Laurence Sterne declared of his comic masterpiece, and in order to achieve his ambition he became an assiduous networker, as astute a self-publicist as any modern author could hope to be. Shocked critics of Tristram Shandydenounced his bawdy novel as a scandal to the cloth but Sterne revelled in the celebrity his age's obsession with novelty and fashion allowed him. He at last found compensation for a life characterized by alternating moods of gaiety and gloom. Unhappily married to a woman who suffered a nervousbreakdown and at one time believed herself to be the Queen of Bohemia, Sterne became notorious for his sexual and sentimental liaisons with other women. His second book, A Sentimental Journey, transmuted his experiences into literary expressions of moral feeling. Dependent for so much of his life on patrons, it was the patronage of the reading public that was to secure his livelihood. Tristram Shandy remains one of the most innovative and influential novels in world literature, and Ian Campbell Ross makes full use of important new materials to examineSterne's life and career and the cult of the celebrity author.
Author : Laurence Sterne
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483152502
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (525 download)
Download or read book The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy (Classic Reprint) written by Laurence Sterne and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy I can give no better advice than that they skip over the remaining part of this chapter; for I declare, beforehand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Thomas Keymer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139827561
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Laurence Sterne written by Thomas Keymer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-20 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known today for the innovative satire and experimental narrative of Tristram Shandy (1759–67), Laurence Sterne was no less famous in his time for A Sentimental Journey (1768) and for his controversial sermons. Sterne spent much of his life as an obscure clergyman in rural Yorkshire. But he brilliantly exploited the sensation achieved with the first instalment of Tristram Shandy to become, by his death in 1768, a fashionable celebrity across Europe. In this Companion, specially commissioned essays by leading scholars provide an authoritative and accessible guide to Sterne's writings in their historical and cultural context. Exploring key issues in his work, including sentimentalism, national identity, gender, print culture and visual culture, as well as his subsequent influence on a range of important literary movements and modes, the book offers a comprehensive new account of Sterne's life and work.
Author : Laurence Sterne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331120001
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman written by Laurence Sterne and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: & A Sentimental Journey, Vol. 1 of 2 If it had not been for these two mettlesome tits, and that madcap of a postilion who drove them from Stilton to Stamford, the thought had never entered my head. He flew like lightning: - there was a slope of three miles and a half; - we scarcely touched the ground - the motion was most rapid, - most impetuous; - 'twas communicated to my brain, my heart partook of it. - 'By the great God of day, ' said I, looking towards the Sun, and thrusting my arm out of the fore-window of the chaise, as I made my vow, 'I will lock up my study-door the moment I get home, and throw the key of it ninety feet below the surface of the earth, into the draw-well at the back of my house. The London waggon confirmed me in my resolution; it hung tottering upon the hill, scarcely progressive, dragged - dragged up by eight heavy beasts, - 'by main strength!' - quoth I, nodding; 'but your betters draw the same way, - and something of everybody's - O rare!' Tell me, ye learned, shall we for ever be adding so much to the bulk, - so little to the stock? Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another? Are we for ever to be twisting and untwisting the same rope! for ever in the same track, - for ever at the same pace? Shall we be destined, to the days of eternity, on holy-days as well as working days, to be showing the relics of learning, as monks do the relics of their saints - without working one - one single miracle with them? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : H. P. Lovecraft
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191640891
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
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Author : Laurence Sterne
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331572285
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (722 download)
Download or read book Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Classic Reprint) written by Laurence Sterne and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman The moment the firanger alighted, he ordered his mule to be ledinto his fiable, and his cloak bag to be brought in then Opening, and taking out of it his crimfon-fatin breeches, with a fil ver-fringed (appendage to them, which I dare not tranflate) he put his breeches with his fringed cod-piece ou, and forthwith, with his {hort fcimitar in his hand, walked out to the grand parade. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : John Kennedy Toole
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802197620
Total Pages : 414 pages
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Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 143447156X
Total Pages : 344 pages
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Publisher : New Canadian Library
ISBN 13 : 0771093977
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Author : Laurence Sterne
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781527984028
Total Pages : 526 pages
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Download or read book The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) written by Laurence Sterne and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent, Vol. 1 It is in pure compliance with this humor of theirs, and from a backwardness in my nature to disappoint anyone soul living, that I have been so very particular already. As my life and opinions are likely to make some noise in the world, and, if I conjecture right, will take in all ranks, professions, and denominations of men what ever, be no less read than the Pilgrim's Progress itself, and, in the end, prove the very thing which Montaigne dreaded in his Essays should turn out, that is, a book for the parlor - window; I find it necessary to consult every one a little in his turn; and therefore must beg pardon for going 011 a little farther in the same way: for which cause right glad I am that I have begun the history of myself in the way I have done; and that I am able to go 011, tracing every thing in it, as Horace says, a?) oeo. Horace, I know, does not recommend this fashion altogether: but that gentleman is speaking only of an epic poem, or a tragedy - (i forget which besides, if it was not so, I should beg Mi. Horace's pardon; for in writing what I have set about, I shall confine myself neither to his rules, nor to any man's rules that ever lived. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 054413320X
Total Pages : 179 pages
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Author : Laurence Sterne
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
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Download or read book The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent written by Laurence Sterne and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
