Das Leben und die Meinungen von Herrn Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
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"Das Leben und die Meinungen von Herrn Tristram Shandy" by Laurence Sterne is a humorous novel published from 1759 to 1767. The narrator Tristram attempts to tell his life story but gets endlessly sidetracked by digressions, not even reaching his own birth until volume three. Through comic mishaps and domestic conflicts between his irritable father and gentle Uncle Toby, Sterne creates a wildly experimental work filled with sexual innuendo, visual tricks like
blank and marbled pages, and playful parodies that transformed him from obscure clergyman to literary celebrity. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768 |
|---|---|
| Editor | Presber, Rudolf, 1868-1935 |
| Illustrator | Corinth, Lovis, 1858-1925 |
| Translator | Bode, Johann Joachim Christoph, 1730-1793 |
| Uniform Title | The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. German |
| Title | Das Leben und die Meinungen von Herrn Tristram Shandy |
| Original Publication | Berlin: Buchverlag fürs Deutsche Haus, 1908. |
| Series Title | Die Bücher des Deutschen Hauses, R. 2 ; Bd. 39 |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leben_und_Ansichten_von_Tristram_Shandy,_Gentleman |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_and_Opinions_of_Tristram_Shandy,_Gentleman |
| Credits | Peter Becker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 75.1 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | German |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Stream of consciousness fiction |
| Subject | Experimental fiction |
| Subject | Fiction -- Authorship -- Fiction |
| Subject | Infants -- Fiction |
| Subject | Fetus -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 76593 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-76593-8 |
| Release Date | Jul 30, 2025 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 176 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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