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| Laurence Sterne |
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| 1713–68, English author, b. Ireland. Educated at Cambridge, he entered the Anglican church and was given the living of Sutton-in-the-Forest, Yorkshire, in 1738, where he remained until 1759. He came to London the following year and was a great social success.… He led a somewhat dissolute life and much of the time was plagued by ill health, dying finally of tuberculosis. In 1760 the first volume of his masterpiece Tristram Shandy appeared.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Biographical Note from Harvard Classics.) |
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Pronunciation:  stûrn from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- WORKS
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- A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy
From the Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction, Vol. III, Part 1.
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- Bartlett’s Sterne Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.
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- Sterne, Laurence, 55837 to 55983
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
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- WRITINGS ABOUT STERNE
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- “Sterne, and the Novel of His Times”
Chapter by C. E. Vaughan, with bibliography from the Cambridge History of English Literature.
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