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The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman / Laurence Sterne ; edited by Graham Petrie ; with an introduction by Christopher Ricks.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Day Sterne Collection Sterne 260
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
- Series:
- Penguin English library
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Infants--Fiction.
- Infants.
- Fetus--Fiction.
- Fetus.
- Fiction--Authorship--Fiction.
- Fiction.
- Fiction--Authorship.
- England--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- England.
- Manners and customs.
- English fiction--18th century.
- English fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Experimental fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Day, Geoffrey (former owner) (Day Sterne Collection copy)
- Rhodes, Bill (autograph) (Day Sterne Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 300, 311- 659 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 19 cm.
- Manufacture:
- Aylesbury, Bucks : Made and printed in Great Britain by Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd.
- Place of Publication:
- Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ; Baltimore, Md ; Victoria, Australia : Penguin Books, [1967].
- Summary:
- Sterne's great comic novel pretends to tell the story of its narrator's life while actually embarking on numerous and elaborate digressions concerning his father and uncle, and playing havoc with fictional and narrative forms all the while.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 29).
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1975".
- Potok Collection copy is 1975 reprint with [5] pages of publisher's advertisements at end..
- Potok Collection copy has page 15-16 from Saturday Review of January 20, 1968 laid in.
- Day Sterne Collection copy has manuscript note in red ink on verso of half-title leaf; manuscript marginal note on page 239.
- Kislak Center Day Sterne Collection copy acquired from Geoffrey Day in 2018.
- Day Sterne Collection copy has autograph ("Bill Rhodes") on page [3] of cover.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768. Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman.
- ISBN:
- 0140430199
- 9780140430196
- 0141439777
- 9780141439778
- OCLC:
- 3235281
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