By which work is novelist Laurence Sterne best remembered?
"about slavery, the composer and former slave Ignatius Sancho wrote to Sterne encouraging him to use his pen to lobby for the abolition of the slave trade. That subject, handled in your striking manner, would ease the yoke (perhaps) of many—but if only one—Gracious God!—what a feast to a benevolent heart! In July 1766 Sterne received Sancho's letter shortly after he had finished writing a conversation between his fictional characters Corporal Trim and his brother Tom in ""Tristram Shandy"", wherein Tom described the oppression of a black servant in a sausage shop in Lisbon which he had visited. Sterne's widely"
"Experimental literature Experimental literature refers to written work—usually fiction or poetry—that emphasizes innovation, most especially in technique. The first text generally cited in this category is Laurence Sterne's ""The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman"" (1759). This text occurs so early in the standard history of the novel that one can't refer to its ""breaking"" conventions that had yet to solidify. But in its mockery of narrative, and its willingness to use such graphic elements as an all-black page to mourn the death of a character, Sterne's novel is considered a fundamental text for many post-World War II authors."
"Writings of Mr. Sterne"". In the 1880s, American writer Elizabeth Robins Pennell and her artist husband Joseph Pennell undertook a journey following Sterne's route. Their travels by tandem bicycle were turned into the book ""Our sentimental journey through France and Italy"" (1888). Viktor Shklovsky considered Sterne one of his most important precursors as a writer, and his own ""A Sentimental Journey: Memoirs, 1917-1922"" was indebted to both Sterne's own ""Sentimental Journey"" and ""Tristram Shandy"". A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy is a novel by Laurence Sterne, written and first published in 1768,"
"to the work of 18th-century novelist Laurence Sterne. Among these works are a satirical novel in letters titled ""Love and Freindship"" , written at age fourteen in 1790, in which she mocked popular novels of sensibility. The next year she wrote ""The History of England"", a manuscript of thirty-four pages accompanied by thirteen watercolour miniatures by her sister, Cassandra. Austen's ""History"" parodied popular historical writing, particularly Oliver Goldsmith's ""History of England"" (1764). Honan speculates that not long after writing ""Love and Freindship"", Austen decided to ""write for profit, to make stories her central effort"", that is, to become a professional"
"critics as a forerunner of many narrative devices and styles used by modernist and postmodernist authors such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Carlos Fuentes, Milan Kundera and Salman Rushdie. The success of Sterne's novel got him an appointment by Lord Fauconberg as curate of St Michael's Church in Coxwold, Yorkshire, which included living at Sterne's model for Shandy Hall. The medieval structure still stands today, and is under the care of the Laurence Sterne Trust since its acquisition in the 1960s. The gardens, which Sterne tended during his time there, are daily open to visitors. The novel's success has resulted"
"in permanent additions to the English lexicon; within the text of ""Tristram Shandy"" Sterne describes the novel as ""Shandean,"" coining a term which still carries the meaning that Sterne originally attached to it when he wrote, ""I write a careless kind of a civil, nonsensical, good humoured ""Shandean"" book..."" Strongly influenced by Cervantes' ""Don Quixote"", Sterne's ""Tristram Shandy"" also gave rise to the term ""cervantic,"" (which Sterne at the time spelled ""cervantick""). In 1766, at the height of the debate about slavery, Ignatius Sancho wrote to Laurence Sterne encouraging the writer to use his pen to lobby for the abolition"
"Immensee (novella) Immensee (1849 and 1851) is a novella by German author Theodor Storm. It was the work that made him famous and remains to this day one of his most widely read. ""Immensee"" was first published in ""Biernatzki's Volksbuch"" in December 1849 when the author was well known regionally, but with the revised edition 1851, he became famous all over Germany and then the world. By the time of his death in 1888, it saw 33 editions in 17 languages. Storm revised it using some comments from his friend Tyco Mommsen and republished it in 1851 in ""Sommergeschichten und"
"Subsisted so long and faithfully betwixt Yorick and the Lady he speaks of."" Journal to Eliza Journal to Eliza is a work by British author Laurence Sterne. It was published posthumously in 1904. Sterne wrote it in the summer of 1767 as he neared the end of his life. At that time he was also writing ""A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy"", where the 'little picture of Eliza' that Yorick wears around his neck is mentioned at the outset. The journal is in the form of a diary-cum-letter and was inspired by his deep affection for Mrs. Elizabeth Draper"
"Journal to Eliza Journal to Eliza is a work by British author Laurence Sterne. It was published posthumously in 1904. Sterne wrote it in the summer of 1767 as he neared the end of his life. At that time he was also writing ""A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy"", where the 'little picture of Eliza' that Yorick wears around his neck is mentioned at the outset. The journal is in the form of a diary-cum-letter and was inspired by his deep affection for Mrs. Elizabeth Draper whom he had met when she visited England in 1765-1767. She was the"
"performed in 2006 at the Stuttgart Opera, and in 2009 in Paris. In his work ""The social destiny of man: or, Theory of the four movements"", Charles Fourier discussed celadony (""l'amour Céladonique""), describing it as purely spiritual love embodied by Céladon in ""L'Astrée"". L'Astrée L'Astrée is a pastoral novel by Honoré d'Urfé, published between 1607 and 1627. Possibly the single most influential work of 17th century French literature, ""L'Astrée"" has been called the ""novel of novels"", partly for its immense length (six parts, forty stories, sixty books in 5399 pages) but also for the success it had throughout Europe: it"
"other novelists should be mentioned, for they, like Fielding and Richardson, were in dialog through their works. Laurence Sterne and Tobias Smollett held a personal dislike for one another, and their works similarly offered up oppositional views of the self in society and the method of the novel. Laurence Sterne was a clergyman, and he consciously set out to imitate Jonathan Swift with his ""Tristram Shandy"" (1759–1767). ""The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman"" was a stylistic and formal revolution for the novel. Like Swift's satires, it begins with radical skepticism and a willingness to break apart figurative language"
"A Political Romance A Political Romance is a 1759 novel by Laurence Sterne, author of ""Tristram Shandy"". The novel was the first work written by Sterne, and it can be labelled a ""roman à clef"" or a ""cronique scandaleuse"", which were popular at the beginning of the 18th century. It can be considered a mock-epic allegory that describes a provincial squabble between a church-lawyer, an archbishop and a Dean, i.e. a ""Lilliputian"" satire on ecclesiastical politics in Sterne's York. This, though necessary, is not sufficient to account for the multifariousness of the work. The scheme of the allegorical satire not"
"the experimental novel is Laurence Sterne's ""The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman"" (1759–1767), with its rejection of continuous narration. In it the author not only addresses readers in his preface but speaks directly to them in his fictional narrative. In addition to Sterne's narrative experiments, there has visual experiments, such as a marbled page, a black page to express sorrow, and a page of lines to show the plot lines of the book. The novel as a whole focuses on the problems of language, with constant regard to John Locke's theories in ""An Essay Concerning Human Understanding"". The"
"drastic cuts from anatomising or a post-mortem examination. One was identified to be of a size that matched a bust of Sterne made by Nollekens. The skull was held up to be his, albeit with ""a certain area of doubt"". Along with nearby skeletal bones, these remains were transferred to Coxwold churchyard in 1969 by the Laurence Sterne Trust. The story of the reinterment of Sterne's skull in Coxwold is alluded to in Malcolm Bradbury's novel ""To The Hermitage"". Sterne's early works were letters; he had two ordinary sermons published (in 1747 and 1750), and tried his hand at satire."
"fairest face about St. James’s, to the sootiest complexion in Africa: at which tint of these, is it, that the ties of blood are to cease? and how many shades must we descend lower still in the scale, ’ere mercy is to vanish with them?—but ’tis no uncommon thing, my good Sancho, for one half of the world to use the other half of it like brutes, & then endeavor to make ’em so.|Laurence Sterne, 27 July 1766 His works, first collected in 1779, were edited, with newly discovered letters, by JP Browne (London, 1873). A less complete edition was"
"letter to the ""Journal de Paris"" which is still on record. The same year, her first novel, her first published work, ""Laure d’Estell"", was anonymously published, on the advice of her publisher Sir Stanislas de Boufflers and Joseph-Alexandre Pierre de Ségur, Viscount of Ségur. Ten years later, she published ""Léonie de Montbreuse"", which was critically acclaimed by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve as her best novel, but ""Anatole"" of 1815, a story of lost romance, may be the most famous of her works. After her first successful novel and several others, acclaimed for their style and sweet sincerity, she wrote many others"
"Laurence Sterne, whom Xavier admired. Xavier did not think much of ""Voyage"", but his brother Joseph had it published. Most of his other works are of modest dimensions; these include In 1839, after the publication of a French edition of ""La Jeune Sibérienne"" (1825) Maistre went on a long journey to Paris and Savoy. He was surprised to find himself well known in literary circles. Alphonse de Lamartine dedicated a poem to him (""Retour"", 1826) praising his genius: ""the future sons will say [...] it is your heart, which through your mellifluous writings you have passed to us"". He met"
"family's bank in London and Germany, which he loathed. He escaped to Paris, where he met his German wife Tania Kurella, whom he married in 1935. They moved to New York in 1939, returned to England in the early 1950s and in 1961 moved to Hatch Manor, in Wiltshire. His fiction includes ""The Heartless Land"" (1932); ""Something Wrong"" (1938); ""The Man who was Loved"" (1952); ""The Stories of James Stern"" (1969) and some unpublished family memoirs ""A Silver Spoon"". ""The Hidden Damage"" (1947), his most frequently re-printed book, was his account of his work in Germany with the U. S."
"one-act vaudeville plays including ""A Good Provider"" (1928), ""The Red Hat"", ""Five Minutes from the Station"", and ""Fear"". Elaine Sterne's first published story, ""The King of the Christmas Feast,"" appeared in the December 1914 issue of ""St. Nicholas Magazine"". By the time she was in her 20s her fiction appeared in popular magazines including ""Collier's"", ""Good Housekeeping"", ""Harper's Magazine"", ""Pictorial Review"", ""Redbook"", ""The Saturday Evening Post"" and ""Woman's Home Companion"". She also wrote novels, including ""The Road to Ambition"" (1917) and ""The Gypsy Star"" (1936), and she collected some of her short fiction in the 1939 book, ""All Things Considered""."
"Kate Sterns Kate Sterns is a Canadian writer. Born in Kingston, Ontario, she now lives in Montreal, Quebec. Her first novel, ""Thinking About Magritte"", has been described as a ""pool of brightly tinted cartoon images,"" and centred on Midnight Cowboy, who lives in Limestone, and whose fantasies about his dead mother bring her back to life. Her second novel, ""Down There By The Train"", featured a hero named Levon Hawke recovering from the tragic death of his younger sister. It was a finalist for the Quebec Writers' Federation Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction in 2001. Her radio plays ""The Bagel"
"Goethe and the young Walter Scott. Both Chatterton and Macpherson's work involved elements of fraud, as what they claimed was earlier literature that they had discovered or compiled was, in fact, entirely their own work. The Gothic novel, beginning with Horace Walpole's ""The Castle of Otranto"" (1764), was an important precursor of one strain of Romanticism, with a delight in horror and threat, and exotic picturesque settings, matched in Walpole's case by his role in the early revival of Gothic architecture. ""Tristram Shandy"", a novel by Laurence Sterne (1759–67) introduced a whimsical version of the anti-rational sentimental novel to the"
"Lichtenstein (novel) Lichtenstein is a historical novel by Wilhelm Hauff, first published in 1826, the year before his early death. Set in and around Württemberg, it is considered his greatest literary success next to his fairy-tales, and, together with the work of the almost forgotten Benedikte Naubert, represents the beginning of historical novel-writing in Germany. Hauff follows Sir Walter Scott (and Naubert) by allowing an invented figure in a real family, Georg Sturmfeder, to witness the events during the struggle of Ulrich von Württemberg against the Swabian League under Georg, Truchsess von Waldburg-Zeil, who plays the part of foil to"
"much of her writing, her literary influences include Baudelaire, Dostoevsky, and the French surrealists. Sellers' most famous work is a novel called ""The Correct Sadist: The Memoirs of Angel Stern"". It is written as a collection of short ""case studies"" relating to themes of sexual dominance and submission, bondage and discipline, and fetishism. Originally published by iKoo-Buchverlg in Berlin in 1981 as Der korrekte Sadismus, Sellers self-published the work in English under Vitriol Publications in 1983. In 1985, Grove Press contracted the novel and Barney Rosset handled its publication. It is also published in France, Italy, and the United Kingdom."
"Richard Martin Stern Richard Martin Stern (March 17, 1915 in Fresno, California – October 31, 2001 in Santa Fe, New Mexico) was an American novelist. Stern began his writing career in the 1950s with mystery tales of private investigators, winning a 1959 Edgar Award for Best First Novel, for ""The Bright Road to Fear"". He was most notable for his 1973 novel ""The Tower"", in which a fire engulfs a new metal-and-glass frame skyrise. Stern was inspired to write the novel by the construction of the World Trade Center in New York City. Warner Brothers bought the rights to the"
"essentially be defensive. Among the casualties on the French side were Among the casualties on the Allied side were Laurence Sterne's famous picaresque novel Tristram Shandy of 1759 contains a number of references to the Nine Years' War, including the 1695 Second Siege of Namur. The character Corporal Trim refers to the Battle of Landen as follows: ""Your honour remembers with concern, said the corporal, the total rout and confusion of our camp and army at the affair of Landen; every one was left to shift for himself; and if it had not been for the regiments of Wyndham, Lumley,"
"writers who've since become prominent, including poet C.D. Wright and fiction writers Ellen Gilchrist, Lewis Nordan, Lee K. Abbott and Jack Butler. Stern subsequently moved to London, England, before returning to Memphis in his thirties to accept a job at a local folklore center. There he learned about the city's old Jewish ghetto, The Pinch, and began to steep himself in Yiddish folklore. He published his first book, the story collection ""Isaac and the Undertaker's Daughter,"" which was based in The Pinch, in 1983. It won the Pushcart Writers' Choice Award and acclaim from some notable critics, including Susan Sontag,"
"collection, selected the contents included, and wrote introductory essays on the varying genres. The collection became a standard single-volume anthology of Poe's works for almost fifty years. Stern died on July 31, 1984 at the age of 83. Today Stern is most remembered for a short story he wrote in 1943. In February 1938 Stern awoke with the story in mind. Inspired by a dream that was reminiscent of the 1843 Charles Dickens novella ""A Christmas Carol"", Stern wrote a 4,000 word short story called ""The Greatest Gift"". He began work on it in 1939 but didn't finish until 1943,"
"Mario Rigoni Stern Mario Rigoni Stern (1 November 1921 – 16 June 2008) was an Italian author and World War II veteran. His first novel ""Il sergente nella neve"", published in 1953 (and the following year in English as ""The Sergeant in the Snow""), draws on his own experience as a sergeant major in the Alpini corps during the disastrous retreat from Russia in World War II. It is his only work to be translated into English and Spanish. Other well-known works also include ""Le stagioni di Giacomo"" (Giacomo's Seasons), ""Storia di Tönle"" (The Story of Tönle), and the collection"
"for mystery and crime novels, and the 1989 Falcon Award by the Maltese Falcon Society of Japan. Strega (novel) Strega (Italian for ""witch"" or ""sorceress"") is a hardboiled detective novel written by American author and attorney Andrew Vachss, first published in 1987. The story features the pursuit and destruction by the protagonist Burke, an ex-con private investigator, of a pedophile ring involved in trading child pornography via telephone modems. The novel was written and published long before social concern over the use of the Internet for spreading or trading child pornography became widespread. It is the second novel in the"
"The World of Yesterday The World of Yesterday: Memories of a European (German title Die Welt von Gestern: Erinnerungen eines Europäers) is the memoir of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. It is considered the most famous book on the Habsburg Empire. He started writing it in 1934 when, anticipating Anschluss and Nazi persecution, he uprooted himself from Austria to England and later to Brazil. He posted the manuscript, typed by his second wife Lotte Altmann, to the publisher the day before they both committed suicide in February 1942. The book was first published in Stockholm (1942), as ""Die Welt von Gestern""."
"A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy is a novel by Laurence Sterne, written and first published in 1768, as Sterne was facing death. In 1765, Sterne travelled through France and Italy as far south as Naples, and after returning determined to describe his travels from a sentimental point of view. The novel can be seen as an epilogue to the possibly unfinished work ""The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman"", and also as an answer to Tobias Smollett's decidedly unsentimental ""Travels Through France and Italy"". Sterne had met Smollett during his"
"by Telos Press Publishing in 2015. Sturm (novella) Sturm is a 1923 World War I novella by the German writer Ernst Jünger. It has a frame story set in the days before the Somme Offensive on the Western Front, where a group of German officers meet to discuss the war and listen to the literary sketches read by one of their members, Lieutenant Sturm. ""Sturm"" was serialised in ""Hannoverscher Kurier"" from 11 to 27 April 1923. The novella was forgotten even by Jünger until it was rediscovered in 1960. It was published in book form in 1963. An English translation"
"England. His first book ""Die Mystik, die Künstler und das Leben"" is about English poets of the eighteenth century. The English writer Laurence Sterne influenced Kassnerr and he appears as a character in Kassner's ""Die Chimäre"". Kassner translated Sterne's ""Tristram Shandy"" and Cardinal Newman's ""Apologia Pro Vita Sua"" into German, and wrote several essays on Sterne, Thomas de Quincey and Thomas Hardy. In 1900 Kassner made his first trip to Paris. Here he met André Gide, whose work ""Philoktet"" he translated into German. He also met Maurice Maeterlinck. His involvement with French culture is reflected in his essays on Baudelaire,"