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Purporting to be an autobiography of the antihero Tristram Shandy, Lawrence Sterne's novel is a comic masterpiece of digression, egoism and sensationalism, as its hilarious asides, explanations and host of memorable secondary characters - such as Uncle Toby, Dr Slop, Parson Yorick and Widow Wadman - take centre stage, at the expense of the actual life events the book sets out to depict. A humorous compendium of European thought and literature - pastiching the likes of Locke and Bacon and referencing Pope, Swift, Cervantes and Rabelais - emerges amid the convoluted accounts of Tristram's conception, misnaming and accidental circumcision by a sash window, in a shrewd narrative that examines the role and nature of language itself.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

• Full title: Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
• Author: Laurence Sterne
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 608
• EAN: 9781847494160
• ISBN: 1847494161
• ID: 08013958
• Publisher: Alma Books Ltd.
• Weight: 492 g
• Dimensions: 199 × 130 × 39 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. May 2015

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