The Works of Laurence Sterne: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.

STERNE, Laurence.

Item Number: 2059

London: W. Strahan, 1780.

Octavo, 10 volumes. In very good condition with gilt tooling to the spines. Bookplate of Buchanan Washbourn of each volume.

Tristram Shandy is considered by many the first modern novel and Sterne the father of stream of consciousness writing. It is perhaps the most literal example of a novel available. Sterne was an Anglican Vicar who was influenced by Pope, Locke, Swift and Cervantes. His narrative devices and styles have indelibly influenced many modern and postmodern authors: James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Milan Kundera, Salmon Rushdie among others.