The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman
By: Laurence Sterne ; edited with an introduction and notes by Ian Campbell Ross.
Contributors: Ross, Ian Campbell.
Series: The World's classics; Oxford paperbacks
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 595
Subjects: Fiction -- Authorship -- Fiction; Infants -- Fiction; Fetus -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Tristram Shandy.
Description: Doomed to become the 'sport of fortune' by an interruption at the crucial moment of conception, Tristram Shandy's life lurches from one mishap to another: his nose crushed by the doctor's forceps during birth, christened with the worng name, an unfortunate incident involving a slamming sash window. Though everything occurs between parlor and garden, Tristram's excitable father, bewildered mother, and Uncle Toby provide ample opportunity for the digressions and madcap events that structure this seminal novel.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [xxvi]-xxvii.
Spine title: Tristram Shandy.