Download or read book The Life and Times of Laurence Sterne Classic Reprint written by Wilbur L. Cross and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-16 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life and Times of Laurence Sterne This book aims to present, within reasonable compass, the personal history of Laurence Sterne, along with some account of the numerous men and women with whom he associated at home and abroad. Hence it has been called, after an old fashion for similar biographies, The Life and Times of Laurence Sterne. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Life and Letters of Laurence Sterne Vol 1 of 2 Classic Reprint written by Lewis Melville and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life and Letters of Laurence Sterne, Vol. 1 of 2 It is astonishing that a man of letters so eminent as Laurence Sterne should have had to wait nearly a hundred years for a biographer. John Wilkes and John Hall-Stevenson, when their friend died, announced their intention to write his life, but, in spite of his daughter's frequent reminders, they never even began the task. It was not until the eve of the centenary of his death that the "Life of Sterne," by Mr. Percy Fitzgerald, appeared; and this work remained in sole possession of the field for several decades. "It contains," Mr. Traill wrote of it in his monograph on Sterne, contributed in 1882 to the "English Men of Letters" series, "nearly all the information as to the facts of Sterne's life that is now ever likely to be recovered." This statement, happily, was soon falsified by the discovery of numerous letters and other material, which Mr. Fitzgerald incorporated in the 1896 edition of his work; and once again critics declared that now the sources of information were all disclosed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Works of Laurence Sterne with a Life of the Author Written by Himself written by Laurence Sterne and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Laurence Sterne Classic Reprint written by H. D. Traill and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-25 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Laurence Sterne The materials for a biography of Sterne are by no means abundant. Of the earlier years of his life the only exist ing record is that preserved in the brief autobiographical memoir which, a few months before his death, be com posed, in the usual quaint staccato style of his familiar cer respondence, for the benefit Of his daughter. Of his child hood; of his school-days; of his life at Cambridge, and in his Yorkshire Vicarage; of his whole history, in fact, up to the age of forty-six, we know nothing more than he has there jetted down. He attained that age in the year 1750; and at this date begins that series of his Letters, from which, for those who have the patience to sort them out of the chronological confusion in which his daughter and editress involved them, there is, no doubt, a good deal to be learnt. These letters, however, which extend down to 1768, the year of the writer's death, contain pretty nearly all the contemporary material that we have to depend on. Freely as Sterne mixed in the best literary society, there is singularly little to be gathered about him, even in the way of chance allusion and anecdote, from the memoirs and am of his time. Of the many friends who would have been competent to write his biography while the facts were yet fresh, but one, John Wilkes, ever entertained - if he did seriously entertain - the idea of performing this pious work; and he, in spite of the entreaties of Sterne's widow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Complete Works of Laurence Sterne written by Laurence Sterne and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-14 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Complete Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author Thus did sterne live, a local celebrity, till he was forty-six years Of age. This is noteworthy. Like Cowper, he was late of beginning to write for the public - that is, for fame. He wrote for fame, and found it. Before 1759, the year in which the first two volumes Of Tristram Shandy were published, sterne had printed only two sermons. He had written a. Good deal, it is true; but now, 'tired of employing his brains for other people's advantage, ' he took to his pen for his own. Accused of writing upon Iago's advice, 'put money in thy purse, ' or, as it was pedanti cally expressed, nummum in locale, he replied that he wrote, not to be fed, but to be famous. He gained what he wrote for.' He stalked into renown on his 'hobby-horse' - a compound he rendered classical in Tristram Shandy. He wanted money too - all men who write do. He mentions having taken a small house in York at the time for the education of his daughter; and this requires money. Sterne was lucky enough to encounter both praise and pudding. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Laurence Sterne written by Ian Campbell Ross and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laurence Sterne was in his mid-forties when the publication of Tristram Shandy catapulted him from obscurity into unprecedented literary fame. The story of how a provincial clergyman became the most fashionable writer of his day is extraordinary, and all the more remarkable for having beenengineered by its subject. 'I wrote not to be fed, but to be famous', Laurence Sterne declared of his comic masterpiece, and in order to achieve his ambition he became an assiduous networker, as astute a self-publicist as any modern author could hope to be. Shocked critics of Tristram Shandydenounced his bawdy novel as a scandal to the cloth but Sterne revelled in the celebrity his age's obsession with novelty and fashion allowed him. He at last found compensation for a life characterized by alternating moods of gaiety and gloom. Unhappily married to a woman who suffered a nervousbreakdown and at one time believed herself to be the Queen of Bohemia, Sterne became notorious for his sexual and sentimental liaisons with other women. His second book, A Sentimental Journey, transmuted his experiences into literary expressions of moral feeling. Dependent for so much of his life on patrons, it was the patronage of the reading public that was to secure his livelihood. Tristram Shandy remains one of the most innovative and influential novels in world literature, and Ian Campbell Ross makes full use of important new materials to examineSterne's life and career and the cult of the celebrity author.

Download or read book The Life of Laurence Sterne Vol 1 Classic Reprint written by Percy Fitzgerald and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life of Laurence Sterne, Vol. 1 Sterne was among the first of our men of letters to be exploited by the press. The public, naturally enough we should think nowadays, was very curious to know what manner of man was that who had written a book quite unlike any other they had ever read - how he lived, how he looked, and what he said; and information was forthcoming from the hacks of literature who very likely had never seen him. There was, for example, - to mention again what has been described and printed in another place - that first strange notice from the pen of Dr. John Hill, a notorious London quack-doctor, who must have interviewed Sterne's friends in town for anecdotes half-fact and half-fiction. And after his death Sterne became the theme of more imaginary biography in a larger style. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Download or read book The Life and Letters of Laurence Sterne Vol 2 of 2 Classic Reprint written by Lewis Melville and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life and Letters of Laurence Sterne, Vol. 2 of 2 About ten days after the arrival of his wife and daughter at Paris, Sterne set out with them for Toulouse, where he proposed to remain for some months a year, he said in one of his letters written soon after he was settled at Toulouse, will tire us all out I know. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Works of Laurence Sterne written by Laurence Sterne and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Works of Laurence Sterne: In One Volume; With a Life of the Author, Written by Himself Admitted to the degree of B. A. In January ma Admitted M. A. At the commencement of 1740. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Download or read book The Works of Laurence Sterne written by Laurence Sterne and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-21 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Works of Laurence Sterne: In One Volume, With a Life of the Author He was admitted of Jesus' College, in the univer ity of Cambridge, oth July 1733, under the tuition of Mr Cannon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Complete Works and Life of Laurence Sterne Vol 1 Classic Reprint written by Laurence Sterne and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Complete Works and Life of Laurence Sterne, Vol. 1 "I have long been a sentimental Being," said Sterne the year before his death, "***The world has imagined because I wrote Tristram Shandy that I was myself more Shandean than I really ever was." It may well be that we do not come quite to the real Sterne when we regard him as he asks us to regard him in Tristram Shandy, - as the king's jester. This view was taken by an anonymous critic of his own time, who averred that "the highest excellence of this genuine, this legitimate son of humour, lies not in his humorous but in his pathetic vein." The same opinion was held by Emile Montegut, who, among the many Frenchmen that have written of Sterne, is the gayest and subtlest of them all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Download or read book The Complete Works and Life of Laurence Sterne Vol 6 Classic Reprint written by Percy Fitzgerald and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Complete Works and Life of Laurence Sterne, Vol. 6 Montreuil much resembling Sterne's Maria, and afterwards took a public house at Calais. The dead donkey, the heart-broken Maria, the grisette at the glove-shop, the fille de chambre, so pretty and petite, are all declared to be no invention Of Yorick's. Doubtless this is so, but the details that Scott gave cannot be true. Scott found them in a miscellany of anecdotes called An Olio by William Davis, the bib liographer. Davis, we are asked to believe, met La Fleur at Calais and received direct from him the' story Of the valet and his master. The bibliographer must have been imposed upon by a smart lackey who knew how to play himself Off on credulous Eng lishmen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Works of Laurence Sterne Vol 1 of 4 Classic Reprint written by Laurence Sterne and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Works of Laurence Sterne, Vol. 1 of 4 To friendship and to feeling dear, Immortal Sterne should next appear, With Cupid gaily running after, Encircled with a myrtle crown, And clothed in a cleric gown, The jest of jollity and laughter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Laurence Sterne Vol 2 Classic Reprint written by Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Laurence Sterne, Vol. 2 France; but he lays his disgust principally to the account of the eternal platitude of the French character. He, too, was sick of the local parlia ment and its wrangles. If I do not mind, he said, I shall grow most stupid and sententious by mere contagion. His daughter, however, relished her new life much, and, with masters in music, dancing, and French, was rapidly adapting herself to the new country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Works of Laurence Sterne Vol 2 Classic Reprint written by Laurence Sterne and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Works of Laurence Sterne, Vol. 2 Shandy. With little doubt he sat down to work in the last week of January, 1759. He was living much alone at Sutton that winter, for his wife had been placed under a physician's care at York; and to ward off melancholy on rainy days, he amused himself by writing a laughable book. Distracted only by the sentimental entanglement with Miss Fourmantelle, which occasioned visits to York so soon as spring broke, he went on easily with his work, completing the second volume as early as J une. While the book was in making, Sterne took some of the loose sheets over to his friend Croft's, where he read them to a company which the Squire of Still ington assembled for the purpose after dinner. Some of the company fell asleep, at which. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.