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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Sterne a consumptive who knew that he would meet an early death was determined to pack into his life all the writing adventure and play he could believing implicitly ‘that every time a man smiles – but much more so when he laughs that it adds something to this Fragment of Life’. We see him in his study at Shandy Hall among the philosophes in Paris with his family at Toulouse and Montpellier preaching before the villagers of Coxwold or before the duke of York and entertaining the blue- stockings the intellectuals the wits and rakes of eighteenth-century London. We witness Sterne’s struggle after sailing through the early volumes of Tristram Shandy to find ways to continue or complete the novel. We watch the disintegration of any meaningful relationship with his wife his secret amours his public sentimental flirtations and his hopeless passion for Eliza Draper.