Tristram Shandy [AmazonClassics Edition] (2020)

Laurence Sterne

















Author: Laurence Sterne

Title: Tristram Shandy [AmazonClassics Edition]

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 19h 50m

Format: m4a - 125 kbps

Weight: 1,05 GB

Release date: 01-28-20

Language: English

Publisher: Brilliance Publishing, Inc.

Categories: Literature & Fiction, Classics

















Beginning with the events leading up to his conception, Tristram Shandy intends to grace listeners with his remarkable life story. But his words often run wild. And through two expansive arcs - marvels of incident - so does his narrative, chockablock with family, friends, chambermaids, midwives, parsons, guardians, and neighbors. For the defensive Tristram, marshaling his material becomes something of a wonderful struggle with every new digression.



Defiantly original, deliberately playful, and an absurd celebration of writing, Tristram Shandy’s progressive experimental structure divided critics, delighted readers, and exerted an influence on generations of writers. Today, Laurence Sterne’s tour de force is universally lauded as a milestone in metafictional narrative.















Laurence Sterne was an Irish-born English novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He is best known for his novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy; but he also published many sermons, wrote memoirs, and was involved in local politics. Sterne died in London after years of fighting consumption (tuberculosis).















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