TRISTRAM SHANDY

NEW YORK: THE MODERN LIBRARY, 1944 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or, more briefly, Tristram Shandy) is a novel by Laurence Sterne. It was published in nine volumes, the first two appearing in 1759, and seven others following over the next 10 years. As its title suggests, the book is ostensibly Tristram's narration of his life story. But it is one of the central jokes of the novel that he cannot explain anything simply, that he must make explanatory diversions to add context and colour to his tale, to the extent that we do not even reach Tristram's own birth until Volume III. LAURENCE STERNE- (born Nov. 24, 1713, Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ire. ¿ died March 18, 1768, London, Eng.) English novelist and humorist. Sterne was a clergyman in York for many years before his talents became apparent when he wrote a Swiftian satire in support of his dean in a church squabble. Turning his parishes over to a curate, he began to write Tristram Shandy (1759 ¿ 67), an experimental novel issued in nine parts in which the story is subordinate to its narrator's free associations and digressions. It is considered one of the most important ancestors of psychological and stream of consciousness fiction. GREAT PIECE OF HISTORY, DARK RED COVER WITH GOLD DESIGN FRONT AND GOLD PRINT SPINE. COUPLE PENCIL MARKS INSIDE FRONT, TIGHT AND GOOD CONDITION. SOME SMUDGES FROM USE ON COVER. NO PUBLISH DATE LISTED. ESTIMATING 1944 OR 1945. 1776 BOOKSTORE, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.