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  • Published: 15 September 2004
  • ISBN: 9780375761195
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 704
  • RRP: $55.00

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman




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Introduction and Notes by Robert Folkenflik


Rich in playful double entendres, digressions, formal oddities, and typographical experiments, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman provoked a literary sensation when it first appeared in England in a series of volumes from 1759 to 1767. An ingeniously structured novel (about writing a novel) that fascinates like a verbal game of chess, Tristram Shandy is the most protean and playful English novel of the eighteenth century and a celebration of the art of fiction; its inventiveness anticipates the work of Joyce, Rushdie, and Fuentes in our own century. This Modern Library Paperback is set from the nine-volume first edition from 1759.

  • Published: 15 September 2004
  • ISBN: 9780375761195
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 704
  • RRP: $55.00

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