Project Gutenberg 2025-07-30 Public domain in the USA. 544 Sterne, Laurence 1713 1768 Yorick, Mr. Presber, Rudolf 1868 1935 Presber, Hermann Otto Rudolf Corinth, Lovis 1858 1925 Corinth, Franz Heinrich Louis Corinth, Louis Korint, Lovis Bode, Johann Joachim Christoph 1730 1793 Urban, Johann Konrad The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. German Das Leben und die Meinungen von Herrn Tristram Shandy $aBerlin :$bBuchverlag fürs Deutsche Haus, $c1908. Die Bücher des Deutschen Hauses, R. 2 ; Bd. 39 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_and_Opinions_of_Tristram_Shandy,_Gentleman https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leben_und_Ansichten_von_Tristram_Shandy,_Gentleman Peter Becker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Das Leben und die Meinungen von Herrn Tristram Shandy" by Laurence Sterne is a novel written in the mid-18th century. It playfully satirizes reason, manners, and learned systems through a narrator who tells his life and opinions as a chain of witty digressions. The story orbits Tristram, his opinionated father Walter Shandy, his gentle Uncle Toby, and the parson Yorick, turning household talk and mishaps into comic reflections on identity, chance, and folly. The opening of this edition begins with editorial notes and a biographical sketch of the author—“the poor Yorick”—covering his clerical career, troubled marriage, celebrated flirtations, travels, lonely death, and the character of this German translation. The story proper then launches with Tristram proclaiming his unlucky birth and directly addressing the reader, promising both life and opinions in his own errant way. Early chapters wander to the village midwife and, especially, to the parson Yorick—his kindness, quick wit, war on affected seriousness, the enemies he makes, and his death from grief, marked by “Ach, armer Yorick.” The narrative then turns to Walter Shandy’s theory that names shape destiny (his horror of “Tristram”), and introduces Uncle Toby, a modest, war-wounded soul whose delicacy clashes with Walter’s eagerness to air a family scandal, all as the noise upstairs signals that Tristram’s birth is imminent. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/daslebenunddieme00ster 20231003101545sterne 1908 de Reading ease score: 75.1 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. de Stream of consciousness fiction Experimental fiction Fiction -- Authorship -- Fiction Infants -- Fiction Fetus -- Fiction PR Text Category: Humour Category: Novels Category: Classics of Literature Category: British Literature 611493 2025-07-31T09:00:06.960218 text/html 581409 2025-07-30T09:08:18 text/html 1819445 2025-07-31T09:00:21.001165 application/epub+zip 1820166 2025-07-31T09:00:09.220202 application/epub+zip 603189 2025-07-31T09:00:07.987253 application/epub+zip 2644417 2025-07-31T09:00:28.834167 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 2534133 2025-07-31T09:00:19.901183 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 551427 2025-07-31T09:00:06.001256 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 531317 2025-07-30T09:08:18 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17841 2025-07-31T09:00:29.037098 application/rdf+xml 18903 2025-07-31T09:00:08.226208 image/jpeg 3459 2025-07-31T09:00:08.110202 image/jpeg 2128019 2025-07-31T09:00:07.054204 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia de.wikipedia fr.wikipedia en.wikipedia de.wikipedia