The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman

Sterne, Laurence

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Laurence Sterne’s great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it. 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.

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Publish Date: 26/01/2023

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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’

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

Additional information

Weight 910 g
Dimensions 204 × 138 × 49 mm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

640

Language

English

Edition

Reprint

Dewey

823.6 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K