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    A Political Romance
    A Political Romance
    A Political Romance
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    A Political Romance

    By Laurence Sterne

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    According to Wikipedia: "It was published in nine volumes, the first two appearing in 1759, and seven others following over the next 10 years. It was not always held in high esteem by other writers (Samuel Johnson responded that, "Nothing odd can last"), but its bawdy humour was popular with London society, and it has come to be seen as one of the greatest comic novels in English, as well as a forerunner for many modern narrative devices.""

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSeltzer Books
    Release dateMar 1, 2018
    ISBN9781455323272
    A Political Romance
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    Laurence Sterne

    Irish-born Laurence Sterne was an eighteenth century English author and Anglican clergyman. Though he is perhaps best known as a novelist, Sterne also wrote memoirs, articles on local politics, and a large number of sermons for which he was quite well known during his lifetime. Sterne’s works include The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, and the satire A Political Romance (also known as The History of a Good Warm Watch-Coat). Sterne died in 1768 at the age of 54.

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      A Political Romance - Laurence Sterne

      A POLITICAL ROMANCE BY LAURENCE STERNE

      Published by Seltzer Books

      established in 1974, now offering over 14,000 books

      feedback welcome: seltzer@seltzerbooks.com

      18th century novels:

      The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne

      A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Laurence Sterne

      A Political Romance by Laurence Sterne

      Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding

      Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

      The Adventures of Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett

      The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Tobias Smollett

      The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett

      Pamela by Samuel Richardson

      Clarissa Harlowe by Samuel Richardson

      A Political Romance, Addressed To _____ ________, Esq; of York. To which is subjoined a KEY.

      Ridiculum acri Fortius et melius magnas plerumque secat Res

      YORK: Printed in the Year MDCCLIX (1759).

      [Price ONE SHILLING.]

      SIR,

      In my last, for want of something better to write about, I told you what a World of Fending and Proving we have had of late, in this little Village of ours, about an old-cast-Pair-of-black-Plush-Breeches, which John, our Parish-Clerk, about ten Years ago, it seems, had made a Promise of to one Trim, who is our Sexton and Dog-Whipper.--To this you write me Word, that you have had more than either one or two Occasions to know a good deal of the shifty Behaviour of this said Master Trim,-- and that you are astonished, nor can you for your Soul conceive, how so worthless a Fellow, and so worthless a Thing into the Bargain, could become the Occasion of such a Racket as I have represented.

      Now, though you do not say expressly, you could wish to hear any more about it, yet I see plain enough that I have raised your Curiosity; and therefore, from the same Motive, that I slightly mentioned it at all in my last Letter, I will, in this, give you a full and very circumstantial Account of the whole Affair.

      But, before I begin, I must first set you right in one very material Point, in which I have misled you, as to the true Cause of all this Uproar amongst us;--which does not take its Rise, as I then told you, from the Affair of the Breeches;--but, on the contrary, the whole Affair of the Breeches has taken its Rise from it:--To understand which, you must know, that the first Beginning of the Squabble was not between John the Parish-Clerk and Trim the Sexton, but betwixt the Parson of the Parish and the said Master Trim, about an old Watch-Coat, which had many Years hung up in the Church, which Trim had set his Heart upon; and nothing would serve Trim but he must take it home, in order to have it converted into a warm Under-Petticoat for his Wife, and a Jerkin for himself, against Winter; which, in a plaintive Tone, he most humbly begg'd his Reverence would consent to.

      I need not tell you, Sir, who have so often felt it, that a Principle of strong Compassion transports a generous Mind sometimes beyond what is strictly right,--the Parson was within an Ace of being an honourable Example

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