Sterne, Laurence – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:10:46 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Sterne, Laurence – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/the-life-and-opinions-of-tristram-shandy-gentleman/ Thu, 26 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=28721 ‘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’

One of the greatest novels ever written, now in a wonderful new clothbound edition

Laurence Sterne’s great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it, with a rich metafictional narrative that might classify it as the first ‘postmodern’ novel. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth and life of the unfortunate ‘hero’ Tristram Shandy, the eccentric philosophy of his father Walter, the amours and military obsessions of Uncle Toby, and a host of other characters, including Dr Slop, Corporal Trim and the parson Yorick. A joyful celebration of the endless possibilities of the art of fiction, Tristram Shandy is also a wry demonstration of its limitations.

The text and notes of this volume are based on the acclaimed Florida Edition, with a critical introduction by Melvyn New and Christopher Ricks’s introductory essay from the first Penguin Classics edition.

‘The book that I would never tire of … Sterne was about 250 years ahead of his time’
Roy Porter, author of Enlightenment: Britain And The Creation Of The Modern World

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Laurence Sterne’s great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it, with a rich metafictional narrative that might classify it as the first ‘postmodern’ novel. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth and life of the unfortunate ‘hero’ Tristram Shandy, the eccentric philosophy of his father Walter, the amours and military obsessions of Uncle Toby, and a host of other characters, including Dr Slop, Corporal Trim and the parson Yorick. A joyful celebration of the endless possibilities of the art of fiction, Tristram Shandy is also a wry demonstration of its limitations.

The text and notes of this volume are based on the acclaimed Florida Edition, with a critical introduction by Melvyn New and Christopher Ricks’s introductory essay from the first Penguin Classics edition.

‘The book that I would never tire of … Sterne was about 250 years ahead of his time’
Roy Porter, author of Enlightenment: Britain And The Creation Of The Modern World

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