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Key Information
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| Authors: |
Laurence Sterne |
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Biography & Autobiography · Travel · |
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"Fiction, no doubt, most of it, but concocted on a basis of fact, the interludes of seriousness as distinct from sentimentality drawn from recollections of his earlier travels in France, the whole worked over with great care and nicely calculated to please his large and faithful public, as indeed it did. That he himself was pleased with it we may well believe. It continued the projection of his ideal self." |
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Book Editions
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Format: Paperback, 134
Publisher: Penguin Group USA (April 01, 2002)
Measurements: 7.75"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 0.5"(d), 0.3 lbs.
ISBN: 9780140437799 |
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They order, said I, this matter better in France---- You have been in France? said my gentleman, turning quick upon me with the most civil triumph in the world. Strange! quoth I, debating the matter with myself, that one and twenty miles sailing, for 'tis absolutely no further from Dover to Calais, should give a man these rights. |
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Sterne's famous fictional travelogue was published in two volumes a month before his death in 1768, and is based on his two journeys abroad in 1762-64 and 1765. Sterne called it his "Work of Redemption," presumably for the sins and errors committed in writing the greatest "cock and bull" story ever published in the form of "Tristram Shandy." Through the amiable Parson Yorick, a character familiar to readers of "Tristram Shandy," Sterne parodies the superior tone of the fashionable travel books of his time in which Europe was often compared unfavorably to England. His narrative seems to revere sentiment as the great measure of all experience--from nostalgia and melancholy to romance and extreme tenderness--while at the same time an ambiguous degree of irony wavers somewhere between Sterne and the voice of his narrator. |
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