PC Life & Opinions Of Tristram Shandy

Sterne, Laurence

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A novel about writing a novel is the subject of this complex classic which has been described as the greatest shaggy dog story in the English language.

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Publish Date: 27/03/2003
ISBN: 9780141439778 Category: Tag:

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‘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’

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

Additional information

Weight 532 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 33 mm
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Cover

Paperback

Pages

736

Language

English

Edition

New Edition

Dewey

823.6 (edition:21)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K