Laurence Sterne
Laurence Sterne was an Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric who wrote the novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, published sermons and memoirs, and indulged in local politics. He grew up in a military family, travelling mainly in Ireland but briefly in England. An uncle paid for Sterne to attend Hipperholme Grammar School in the West Riding of Yorkshire, as Sterne's father was ordered to Jamaica, where he died of malaria some years later. He attended Jesus College, Cambridge on a sizarship, gaining bachelor's and master's degrees. While Vicar of Sutton-on-the-Forest, Yorkshire, he married Elizabeth Lumley in 1741. His ecclesiastical satire A Political Romance infuriated the church and was burnt.
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
Embark on a whimsical European tour with a sensitive traveler as he explores not just new lands, but the depths of human emotion and connection.
By Laurence Sterne
The Journal to Eliza and Various letters by Laurence Sterne and Elizabeth Draper
Experience a forbidden 18th-century romance through personal letters filled with longing, spiritual reflection, and the anguish of separation.
By Laurence Sterne
A Political Romance
In a village filled with quirky characters, a battle over clothing becomes a hilarious stand-in for the absurd world of political power.
By Laurence Sterne
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Witness the hilarious and meandering life story of a man whose own birth was the first comedic mishap in a long line of family eccentricities.
By Laurence Sterne
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Misadventures begin even before birth as a man blames the chaos of his conception for the strange course of his life.
By Laurence Sterne