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[...]

A furiously witty response to Tobias Smollett's curmudgeonly "Travels through France and Italy", Laurence Sterne's "A Sentimental Journey" through France and Italy became a hugely influential work of travel writing in its own right. This "Penguin Classics" edition includes an introduction and notes [...]

Endlessly digressive, boundlessly imaginative and unmatched in its absurd and timeless wit, Laurence Sterne's "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" is edited with an introduction by Melvin New and Joan New, and includes a critical essay by Christopher Ricks in "Penguin Classics". Lau[...]

No one description will fit this strange, eccentric, endlessly complex masterpiece. It is a fiction about fiction-writing in which the invented world is as much infused with wit and genius as the theme of inventing it. It is a joyful celebration of the infinite possibilities of the art of fiction, a[...]

The book was originally published in the late 18th century in nine volumes and is still, by far, one of the most contemporary books around. When we say contemporary, we mean in terms of how it looks and reads. The sad thing is, though, Shandy has long been relegated to the realm of cheap and nasty c[...]

Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Laurence Sterne:The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, GentlemanA Political RomanceA Sentimental Journey[...]

Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is a huge literary paradox, for it is both a novel and an anti-novel. As a comic novel replete with bawdy humour and generous sentiments, it introduces us to a vivid group of memorable characters, variously eccentric, farcical and[...]

Mukaeltu näköispainos Laurence Sternen kuuluisan kaikkia konventioita uhmaavan romaanin 1760 ilmestyneestä I osasta. Kiitetty suomennos ja saatesanat Kersti Juvan. "Jos uskot, että huumori ja lukijan kanssa leikittely on uusi keksintö, lue Tristram Shandy. (...) Kirjan nimihenkilö ja kertoja T[...]