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. 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. 'Read, read, read, read, my unlearned reader! read.' Two illustrations by Hogarth,included in the first editions of Volumes I and III.
Revised notes incorporating the latest scholarship and identifying previously overlooked sources.Comprehensive notes identify the profusion of references and reveal previously overlooked sources.The introduction provides an overview of the novel and its place in eighteenth-century literature, a biographical account of the author, the novel's innovations and influence, and attitudes towards readers and writers.The text of the novel preserves, as far as possible, the appearance of Sterne's idiosyncratic typography and features such as black pages, marbled pages, blank pages, missing chapters and other devices.This revised edition of Sterne's extraordinary comic novel retains the text based on the first editions of the original nine volumes, with Sterne's later changes, adds two illustrations by William Hogarth, and expands and updates the introduction, bibliography, and notes, to make this the most critically up-to-date edition available.The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, GentlemanĮdited by Ian Campbell Ross Oxford World's Classics Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health.The European Society of Cardiology Series.
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