Notes on Sterne's "Tristram Shandy" (Cliffs notes) - Softcover

Parish, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822013118 ISBN 13: 9780822013112

Publisher: Hungry Minds Inc,U.S., 1968

Synopsis

The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background -- all to help you gain greater insight into great works you're bound to study for school or pleasure.In "CliffsNotes on Sterne's Tristram Shandy, " you find help in making sense of the complexities of Laurence Sterne's popular 18th-century novel. Filled with humor, lots of twists and turns, and many digressions from the story, "Tristam Shandy" provides unparalleled insight into humanity, as well as the author's own life. In this study guide, you'll find Life of the Author, as well as a Character List and an Outline-Key to the novel, which gives you an at-a-glance look at the major events of the novel. You'll also find Summaries and Commentaries on each chapter, plus review questions, essay topics, and a selected bibliography. Classic literature or modern-day treasure -- you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.

About this title

Review:

"A lot of nonsense is written about Laurence Sterne's "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" -- and that's just as well. It would be depressing in the extreme if this triumphant tangling up of the threads of reason with the strands of linear narrative were to admit of any effective unravelling; which is as much to say, that were you to find yourself picking apart a lucid, non-discursive exposition of the novel - its themes, its techniques, its plot -- you would know that you had finally gone mad." -- Will Self

Book Description:

Sterne's utterly original novel - the meandering, maddening 'autobiography' of one of literature's oldest comic characters.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hungry Minds Inc,U.S.
• Publication date: 1968
• ISBN 10: 0822013118
• ISBN 13: 9780822013112
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 126