Autor Laurence Sterne

'L-d! said my mother, what is all this story about? - A COCK and a BULL, said Yorick - And one of the best of its kind, I ever heard'One of the greatest novels ever written, now in a wonderful new clothbound edition Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece…

Now seen as one of the great English comic novels, ‘Tristram Shandy’ caused a stir on publication in polite 18th-century English society. The novel broke with conventions of form and structure, foreshadowing postmodern authors by 200 years, and scandalized…

Offers a narrative that interweaves the birth and life of the unfortunate 'hero' Tristram Shandy, the eccentric philosophy of his father Walter, the amours and military obsessions of Uncle Toby, and a host of other characters, including Dr Slop, Corporal…

Jak a za jakých okolností vyrůstal vypravěč Tristram? To se dozvíte spolu se spoustou historek navíc v humoristickém románu, nejslavnějším díle britského spisovatele a filozofa Laurence Sterna (1737–1768). Ten jako první porušil kompoziční skladbu klasického…