The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Gentleman

Now seen as one of the great English comic novels, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman caused a stir in polite 18th-century society, with its bawdy descriptions, rambling prose, and shattering of contemporary literary conventions. Hugely influenced by Francis Bacon and Jonathan Swift, clergyman Laurence Sterne manages to both eloquently champion leading literary and scientific views of the day, and to satirise those same idols in the next outrageous breath. The questionable 'hero' and narrator of the story, Tristram Shandy takes the reader on a wild ride through the most riotous of life stories, encompassing a humorously memorable cast of misfits, with a restless energy and modern wit. 

Author: Laurence Sterne

Publisher: Collins Classics

Released Date: 2012

ISBN: 9780007920723