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  The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)) (Paperback) By (author) Laurence Sterne, Edited by Ross Ian Campbell

  

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  Short Description for The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, GentlemanThis revised edition of Sterne's great comic novel retains the first edition text incorporating Sterne's later changes, and adds two original Hogarth illustrations and a wealth of contextualizing information. Tristram's fictional autobiography features favourites including Uncle Toby, Corporal Trim, Dr Slop and Widow Wadman.
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  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Published: 13 December 2009
  • Format: Paperback 640 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Classics
  • ISBN 13: 9780199532896 ISBN 10: 0199532893
  • Sales rank: 103,106

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Full description for The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

• 'Read, read, read, read, my unlearned reader! read...' Sterne's great comic novel is the fictional autobiography of Tristram Shandy, a hero who fails even to get born in the first two volumes. It contains some of the best-known and best-loved characters in English literature, including Uncle Toby, Corporal Trim, Parson Yorick, Dr Slop and the Widow Wadman. Beginning with Tristram's conception, the novel recounts his progress in 'this scurvy and disasterous world of ours', including his misnaming during baptism and his accidental circumcision by a falling sash-window at the age of five; unsurprisingly, Tristram declares that he has been 'the continual sport of what the world calls Fortune'. Tristram Shandy also offers the narrator's 'opinions', at once facetious and highly serious, on books and learning in an age of rapidly expanding print culture, and on the changing understanding of the roles of writers and readers alike. This revised edition retains the first edition text incorporating Sterne's later changes, and adds two original Hogarth illustrations and a wealth of contextualizing information.