Dimensions
130 x 198 x 40mm
Set in the Shandy's small parlour and garden, the book, narrated by Tristram, consists of a plot frequently and flagrantly interrupted by digressions. Tristram insists on beginning the book at the moment of this own conception, but provides no consistent thread or conclusion to his tale. Shrewd and bawdy, he is filled with such vitality that his words can scarcely keep up with his headlong thought. The characters that people his account include his excitable father, Walter, Uncle Toby, the bewildered Mrs Shandy, the impulsive parson Yoric and Dr Slop, and incompetent physician. Impossible and hilarious, 'Tristram Shandy' defies definitions and turns conventions on their head even while laying the very foundations of great modern writing.
The most comprehensive paperback edition available, with introduction, notes, selected criticism, text summary and chronology of Sterne's life and times.
