Sterne
Laurence, 1713–68, English clergyman and novelist.
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Sterne spent much of 1959 traipsing through Africa reporting on the decolonization of the continent.
Joseph R.L. Sterne, Baltimore Sun editorial page editor, dies at 92 | Frederick N. Rasmussen | April 12, 2021 | Washington PostSomewhere in the Afterlife, Laurence Sterne must have been tickled to see his fiendish book infused with new life.
Crazy Cartography: Artists and Writers Conjure a Slew of Imaginative Maps | Lauren Elkin | April 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThus his love of escapist, desperately lighthearted writers like Laurence Sterne and Miguel de Cervantes.
The Forgotten Russian: The Genius of Nikolai Leskov | Benjamin Lytal | April 10, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTTristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne One of the first novels in English ... and a buoyant, postmodern romp.
Pulitzer Winner Jennifer Egan’s PEN Festival Book Bag | Jennifer Egan | April 23, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTMany of them—from Denis Diderot and Lawrence Sterne to David Hume and Adam Smith—met in the Paris salon of Baron Thierry Holbach.
Sterne, in his "Sentimental Journey," gives a pleasing description of snuff-taking with the poor monk.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.We were shown the little room not more than nine feet square where Sterne, when vicar, wrote his greatest book, "Tristram Shandy."
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car | Thomas D. MurphyHe attributes much to the imprudence, or imbecility of the enemy, whose plan of saving an army he likens to Sterne's marble sheet.
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil | Maria GrahamSterne's sentiment and discursiveness found several feeble imitators.
The Political History of England - Vol. X. | William HuntAnd yet in Hamburg Sterne waited full two years for a scanty recognition even of his English fame.
Laurence Sterne in Germany | Harvey Waterman Thayer
British Dictionary definitions for Sterne
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Laurence. 1713–68, English novelist, born in Ireland, author of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759–67) and A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (1768)
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