num_pages: 704
description: Introduction and Notes by Robert FolkenflikRich 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.
language: English
title: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
titlecomplete: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
characters: Mr. Shandy, Yorick, Tristram Shandy, Mrs. Shandy, Trim, Uncle Toby
genres: Literary Fiction, Novels, 18th Century, Literature, English Literature, Classic Literature, Classics, British Literature, Fiction, Humor
ratings_count: 21270
publisher: Modern Library