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|  | The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Ian C. Ross, Joan New, Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New
L---d! said my mother, what is all this story about?----A COCK and a BULL, said Yorick----And one of the best of its kind, I ever heard. It is appropriate that the last line of Laurence Sterne's digressive, irreverent narrative should serve as the best introduction to the book. A classic of English literature, Tristram Shandy was published in nine volumes between 1759 and 1767, at a time when the English novel was just beginning to acquire its distinguishing features thanks to Sterne's contemporaries, Henry Fielding and Samuel Richardson. Sterne borrowed some of his techniques from Rabelais, and some of his ideas from Robert Burton and John Locke. The bulk of this novel, however, attests to a rare creative faculty capable of parodying much of what would become the novelistic conventions of the 18th and 19th centuries, while at the same time broadening and exploring territory that has been rediscovered only in the 20th-century. Tristram Shandy ( shandy meaning crack-brained, half-crazy ) narrates his own genesis and development, beginning with the moment of his conception--although his digressions prevent him from taking his evolution much beyond the age of two. Through his eyes we meet his father, Walter, who is eloquent, animated, and equally fond of discursive ventures into philosophy, history, medicine, and science, all at a breakneck pace; his uncle Toby, whose main distractions are his own accounts of military strategies which he acts out with his servant Corporal Trim; the confused Mrs. Shandy; the polemical and hasty parson, Yorick; the ignorant physician, Dr. Slop; and the intractable household servant, Obadiah. Stern's abiding loyalty to the associative nature of ideas, to immediacy, has been singled out by critics as an early form of the stream-of-consciousness technique. The countless examples of Stern's stylistic innovations--approximating the human mind's tendency to disorder and reassemble reality, avoiding any consistent plot or conclusion, es AUTHOR: Ian C. Ross, Joan New, Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General 
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 | Creating Web Pages Bible by Rhonda Crowder, Crowder
Description not available.Provides instructions for creating Web pages using HTML, XHTML, JavaScript, and Flash, and discusses design and organizational components including layout, text options, images, tables, frames, layers, and forms. AUTHOR: Rhonda Crowder, Crowder
PUBLISHER: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
FORMAT: Audio & Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Playwright As Thinker by Eric Bentley, Richard Gilman
Bentley's definitive original text, including the long-suppressed forward. AUTHOR: Eric Bentley, Richard Gilman
PUBLISHER: Harcourt Trade Publishers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Pale Horse Coming by Jay O. Sanders, Stephen Hunter
Ex-Marine Earl Swaggart leads a team of seven ragtag gun-hands on a mission into the Mississippi swamps, where Earl intends to liberate the prisoners at Thebes Prison Farm from their incredibly sadistic guards. AUTHOR: Jay O. Sanders, Stephen Hunter
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Audio
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: General
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 | True Blue by Francine Pascal
Description not available.His friends all think that Blue has the coolest lifestyle--he lives with his older brother in a house by the beach--but they do not suspect that his life is not as great as it seems. AUTHOR: Francine Pascal
PUBLISHER: Random House Children's Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Celt and Pepper
Description not available.Becoming suspicious after discovering inconsistencies at the site of a young colleague's death, heavyweight Notre Dame professor Roger Knight and his brother, Philip, draw on their academic expertise, as well as their knowledge of campus gossip, to solve the crime. 15,000 first printing.
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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