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CHAPTER I BIRTH AND EDUCATION 1713·1736 TnE great humourist whose life I have undertaken to relate anew, would have been amused by a serious attempt to discover him among his ancestors. l-insty records preserv~ religiously by his Yorkshire neighbours, that they might the more readily boast the achievements of a great-grandfather, interested him, it is true, greatly; but only because they fur: nished matter for jest. His Tristram Shandy is, as all readers of it know, a burlesque history of a typical English family (much Like Ste~e's own) that gained its rank in the, time of Henry the Eighth, and subsequently sank under the disgrace of fiat noses and inauspicious names. The Shandys could claim in the sixteenth century, says Sterne with near reference to himself, "no less than a dozen alchymi<;ts," whose souls passed on, a century or two later, into an archbishop, a 'Welsh judge, "some three or four aldermen", and eventually into a mountebank. His more ideal self

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CONTENTS; CHAPTER PAGE; I Birth and Education 3; II Marriage and Settlement at Sutton-on·the·Forest 36; TIl Politics and Honours · ·· 67; IV Quarrel with his Uncle · 87; V Pastimes and Friendships 104; VI The Parson in his Library 130; VII A Good Warm Watch·Coat 153; VIII The Publication of Tristram Shandy: Volumes I and II 178; IX The Sermons of Mr yorick 210; X Shandy Hall Tristram Shandy: Volumes III and IV 233; XI Shandy Hall Continued 'fristram Shandy: Volumes V; and VI ··· 257; XII Paris ·········· 271; XIII Journey to Toulouse ···· 293; XIV A Gentleman of France 308; XV Yorkshire and London Tristram Shandy: Volumes VII; and VIII 330; XVI Yorkshire and London Continued Sermons: Volumes III; and IV 344; XVII The Tour of Italy · 360; XVIII The Last Volume of Tristram Shandy : ··· 386; XIX The Journal to Eliza ···· 403; XX The Sent
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Originally published in 1909. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

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  • ÉditeurHardpress Publishing
  • Date d'édition2012
  • ISBN 10 1407753266
  • ISBN 13 9781407753263
  • ReliureBroché
  • Nombre de pages600

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