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en-wikipedia-org-4526		Laurence Sterne - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	5092	729	77	It was while living in the countryside, having failed in his attempts to supplement his income as a farmer and struggling with tuberculosis, that Sterne began work on his best-known novel, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, the first volumes of which were published in 1759. The works of Laurence Sterne are few in comparison to other eighteenth-century authors of comparable stature.[52] Sterne's early works were letters; he had two sermons published (in 1747 and 1750), and tried his hand at satire.[53] He was involved in, and wrote about, local politics in 1742.[53] His major publication prior to Tristram Shandy was the satire A Political Romance (1759), aimed at conflicts of interest within York Minster.[53] A posthumously published piece on the art of preaching, A Fragment in the Manner of Rabelais, appears to have been written in 1759.[54] Rabelais was by far Sterne's favourite author, and in his correspondence he made clear that he considered himself as Rabelais' successor in humour writing, distancing himself from Jonathan Swift.[55][56]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4526.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4526.txt