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  • Published: 7 November 2013
  • ISBN: 9781448191857
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 624
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman





Sterne's utterly original novel - the meandering, maddening 'autobiography' of one of literature's oldest comic characters.

Sterne's utterly original novel - the meandering, maddening 'autobiography' of one of literature's oldest comic characters.

Doomed to become the ‘sport of fortune’ by an interruption at the crucial moment of conception, Tristram Shandy’s life lurches from one mishap to another: his nose crushed by the doctor’s forceps during birth, christened with the wrong name, an unfortunate incident involving a slamming sash window… Discover the anti-autobiography of the hilarious Tristram Shandy.

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY TOM MCCARTHY

Tristram Shandy is one of the funniest novels in the English language. It's also one of the first great experimental literary works’ Independent

  • Published: 7 November 2013
  • ISBN: 9781448191857
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 624
Categories:

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Praise for The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Tristram Shandy is one of the funniest novels in the English language. It's also one of the first great experimental literary works

Independent

A mad, recursive, literary joke

Daily Telegraph

An amazing book, seeming like a modern experimental novel but written in the 18th century by an Anglican clergyman. You can dip in and out of it with constant pleasure.

Bamber Gasgoigne, Daily Express

An extraordinary comic tour de force

Guardian

Has inspired and provoked writers as various as Dickens, Joyce and Salman Rushdie

Observer

The ultimate novel about writing a novel

Sunday Telegraph

Tristram Shandy’s open, digressive form offers both an alternative to the inevitable reductions of plot and a foil to the tyranny of the will to system.

New Statesman