EAN: 9780141199993

THE LIFE & OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY - LAUREN...

'I am got  I know not how  into a cold unmetaphorical vein of infamous writing  and cannot take
a plumb-lift out of it for my soul  so must be obliged to go on writing like a Dutch
commentator to the end of the chapter  unless something be done ...' 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  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 Penguin
English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English  from the eighteenth century and
the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

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