All too human; Literary biography; Laurence Sterne.(Books and Arts)(Review)

The Economist (US) | April 14, 2001 | Copyright

LAURENCE STERNE: A LIFE.

AS IAN CAMPBELL ROSS remarks in his preface, the author of "Tristram Shandy" and "A Sentimental Journey" has been well served by modern biographers. In particular, Arthur H. Cash's two volumes, "Laurence Sterne: The Early and Middle Years" (1975) and "Laurence Sterne: The Later Years" (1986) must have seemed a dauntingly hard act to follow. Nevertheless, Mr Ross, a lecturer in English literature at Trinity College, Dublin, has done so successfully in this excellent new biography, which is fully the equal of its predecessors in meticulous ...

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