Today is Thursday, Nov. 24, the 328th day of 2005 with 37 to follow. Laurence Sterne (November 24, 1713 – March 18, 1768) was an Irish-born English novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He is best known ...
CONTENTS: The Satires and Novels A POLITICAL ROMANCE THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY The Sermons THE SERMONS OF LAURENCE STERNE The Letters LETTERS FROM YORICK TO ELIZA ...
The Tuesday just gone marked the 250 th anniversary of the publication of Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. The first two volumes appeared on February 27 th, 1768; the ...
The humour of Tristram Shandy has often been acknowledged, but it is not easy to find scholarly articles on Laurence Sterne which suggest that their authors laughed as they wrote. Nine authors have ...
A dystopian debut novel that reimagines an all-too-recognisable and unsettling future. Leila will prompt many uncomfortable and pertinent questions regarding class and religion. Shalini is left ...
On Wednesdays, classes in Coláiste Mhuire Mullingar in 1970 finished early but the school bus did not depart until 4.30pm. I spent the two hours in the town library, located in what had been the ...
“The trouble with life (the novelist will feel) is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity,” writes Martin Amis in his memoir Experience. “Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental ...
An elegant chair belonging to one of the most famous writers of the 18th century has been returned to its Yorkshire vicarage home having been rediscovered in a fortuitous ‘accident’. Now, after the ...
ABOUT the Reverend and ingenious Laurence Sterne, as the reviewers were wont to call him, there was nothing at hand a half-century ago beyond vague traditions, and an ill-arranged collection of ...
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