Author: Laurence SternePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. A New Edition
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman ... A New Edition
Author: Laurence SterneThe History of Tom Jones
Author: Henry FieldingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman ... A New Edition.
Author: Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Author: Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman ... A New Edition.
Author: Laurence SterneThe Complete Novels and Selected Writings of Amy Levy, 1861-1889
Author: Amy LevyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780813012001
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Amy Levy was a talented Anglo-Jewish writer who committed suicide at the age of 28 in 1889. During her brief career she published essays, short stories, three novels, and three collections of poetry, but none of them is in print today and her works are to be found almost solely in the closed stacks and rare book collections of university libraries. To correct this unavailability and set the stage for a generous selection of her work, Melvyn New introduces Amy Levy as an unmarried Victorian woman and an urban intellectual, disillusioned by the mores of her culture, yet unable to abandon her identification with the English Jews who embodied so much of what she scorned. He reconstructs her world in 1880s England--a time when the president of the British Medical Association warned his colleagues that educated women would become "more or less sexless. . . . [Such women] have highly developed brains but most of them die young"--raising questions that lead to the tortured heart and mind of this "found" writer.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman ... A New Edition
Author: Laurence SterneA Sentimental Journey and Other Writings
Author: Laurence SternePublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191606200
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
'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.
Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey
Author: Laurence SternePublisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0679641963
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Tristram Shandy provoked a literary sensation when it first appeared in a series of installments between 1759 and 1767. The ribald, high-spirited book prompted Diderot to hail Sterne as 'the English Rabelais.' An ingeniously structured novel (about writing a novel) that fascinates like a verbal game of chess, Tristram Shandy is both a joyful celebration of the infinite possibilities of the art of fiction and a wry demonstration of its limitations. Many view this picaresque masterpiece as the precursor of the modern novel. A Sentimental Journey, which came out in 1768, begins as a travelogue. Yet it ends as a treasury of portraits, sketches, and philosophical musings, for as Virginia Woolf observed: 'A Sentimental Journey, for all its levity and wit, is based upon something fundamentally philosophic--the philosophy of pleasure.'