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Franklin Library leather edition of Laurence Sterne's "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Gentleman," a Limited edition, Illustrated by John Austen, one of the 100 GREATEST BOOKS OF ALL TIME series, published in 198. Bound in hunter green leather, the book has matching French moire silk end leaves, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, a satin book marker, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition. Laurence Sterne, who lived from 1713-1768, was a graduate of Jesus College, CAMBRIDGE, where he entered as a work-scholarship student. Here, he read RABELAIS, who was to be an enormous influence on his later writing. Leaving college in debt and in need of making a living, Sterne, like many young men of his generation, entered the church. He married Elizabeth Lumley. Besides preaching in two parishes, Sterne farmed, gardened, and hunted. He also painted and played the violin and cello. "Tristram Shandy" was first published in 1759. Sterne's own father was the model for Tristram's eccentric philosopher-father. In mixing sentiment, irrationality, voyeurism, and freedom of spirit, Sterne formulated a mode of behavior that has come to be known as "Shandean." Tristram believed that his 'eccentric' behavior occurred at his "moment of conception," when his mother asked his father, "What time is it"? His characters sit around and talk, digress, reminisce, ride their individual "hobbyhorses." Yet, amazingly, their concerns touch all of life. Sterne delighted in puns, often off-color ones, double entendres, and in burlesquing conventions. Sterne is Parson Yorick, a jester, out "to do the world some good if he can." 524 HILARIOUS pages! I offer combined shipping.
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