The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Paperback by Laurence Sterne

Product Details

• Publisher: Modern Library (2004-09-21)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 704 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780375761195
• Item Weight: 551.63 grams
• Dimensions: 20.32 x 13.21 x 3.81 cm

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.

About the Author

Robert Folkenflik is a professor of English at the University of California at Irvine. His books include Samuel Johnson, Biographer; The Culture of Autobiography: Constructions of Self-Representation; and The English Hero: 1660—1800. He lives in California.