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Laurence Sterne

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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. With his new talent for writing, he published early volumes of his best-known novel, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Sterne travelled to France to find relief from persistent tuberculosis, documenting his travels in A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, published weeks before his death. His posthumous Journal to Eliza addresses Eliza Draper, for whom he had romantic feelings. Sterne died in 1768 and was buried in the yard of St George's, Hanover Square. His body was said to have been stolen after burial and sold to anatomists at Cambridge University, but recognised and reinterred. His ostensible skull was found in the churchyard and transferred to Coxwold in 1969 by the Laurence Sterne Trust.

Books

The Complete Harvard Classics - ALL 71 Volumes
The Complete Harvard Classics - ALL 71 Volumes
George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Ben Jonson, John Stuart Mill, Gottfried Keller, Robert Louis Stevenson, Euripides, Henry James, Thomas More, Marcus Aurelius, Sophocles, Daniel Defoe, Victor Hugo, Dante Alighieri, Adam Smith, John Locke, Walter Scott, Hans Christian Andersen, Martin Luther, Saint Augustine, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Webster, Plato, Theodor Fontane, Epictetus, John Milton, Immanuel Kant, Guy de Maupassant, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Jacob Grimm, Robert Browning, Francis Bacon, Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Hobbes, John Ruskin, Thomas Malory, Aesop, Blaise Pascal, Jonathan Swift, Homer, Virgil, Michel de Montaigne, Charles Darwin, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Voltaire, Thomas Browne, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, William Makepeace Thackeray, Niccolo Machiavelli, George Sand, Miguel de Cervantes, René Descartes, Benjamin Franklin, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Thomas De Quincey, Aristophanes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Plutarch, Wilhelm Grimm, Herodotus, Laurence Sterne, Molière, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Dekker, Edmund Burke, Thomas Carlyle, Izaak Walton, Christopher Marlowe, John Bunyan, Henry Fielding, Oliver Goldsmith, Sydney Smith, Alfred de Musset, Mark Twain, William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Aeschylus, Alessandro Manzoni, Joseph Addison, Washington Irving, Pliny the Younger, Friedrich von Schiller, Charles Lamb, Jean Racine, Richard Henry Dana, Edward Everett Hale, Philip Sidney, John Dryden, Ernest Renan, Pierre Corneille, George Gordon Byron, Robert Burns, Bret Harte, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Alphonse Daudet, Abraham Cowley, John Fletcher, Theodor Storm, Tacitus, William Penn, Ambroise Paré, Juan Valera, Francis Beaumont, Walter Raleigh, Michael Faraday, George Berkeley, Leigh Hunt, Simon Newcomb, James Russell Lowell, Philip Massinger, Giuseppe Mazzini, David Garrick, Charles W. Eliot, Louis Pasteur, William Henry Harrison, Hippocrates, William Harvey, Honoré Balzac, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Archibald Geikie, Richard Steele, Jean Froissart, Edgar Alan Poe, Francis Drake, Benvenuto Cellini, Francis Pretty, Thomas à Kempis, John Woolman, Joseph Lister, Alexander L. Kielland, William Roper, Philip Nichols, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, Walter Bigges, Edward Haies, William A. Neilson, Ivan Sergejevič Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Greatest Classics Ever Written
The Greatest Classics Ever Written
George Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, Arthur Conan Doyle, James Joyce, Charles Dickens, Soseki Natsume, Charlotte Brontë, Walt Whitman, C. S. Lewis, Honoré de Balzac, Robert Louis Stevenson, Anton Chekhov, Jack London, Henry James, Marcus Aurelius, Jules Verne, G. K. Chesterton, H. G. Wells, H. P. Lovecraft, Daniel Defoe, Gustave Flaubert, Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Herman Hesse, Lewis Carroll, Edith Wharton, J. M. Barrie, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oscar Wilde, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Joseph Conrad, Henrik Ibsen, Plato, Friedrich Nietzsche, W. B. Yeats, Kate Chopin, John Milton, Confucius, Stendhal, Mary Shelley, Emile Zola, Wilkie Collins, Willa Cather, George MacDonald, Bram Stoker, Rabindranath Tagore, Henry David Thoreau, Kahlil Gibran, Laozi, Thomas Hardy, Jonathan Swift, Homer, Niccolò Machiavelli, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Voltaire, Elizabeth von Arnim, Sun Tzu, Weedon Grossmith, William Makepeace Thackeray, Marcel Proust, Kakuzou Okakura, Miguel de Cervantes, Charles Baudelaire, T. S. Eliot, Frederick Douglass, Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Cao Xueqin, Laurence Sterne, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Kenneth Grahame, John Keats, Dante, Nikolai Gogol, Henry Fielding, Mark Twain, William Shakespeare, E. M. Forster, Edgar Allan Poe, Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, Emily Brontë, Giovanni Boccaccio, James Fenimore Cooper, Gaston Leroux, Ann Ward Radcliffe, George Bernard Shaw, Benito Pérez Galdós, Kalidasa, Lewis Wallace, Lucius Apuleius, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Princess Der Ling, Válmíki, Inazo Nitobé, Ivan Sergejevič Turgenev, P. B. Shelley, Leo Tolstoy, Herman Melville, Fyodor Dostoevsky