The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Sterne, Laurence; Campbell Ross, Ian

• ISBN13: 9780192834706
• ISBN10: 0192834703
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-10-22
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

At once endlessly facetious and highly serious, Sterne's great comic novel contains some of the best-known and best-loved characters in English literature--including Uncle Toby, Corporal Trim, Parson Yorick, and Dr. Slop--and boasts one of the most innovative and whimsical narrative styles in all literature. This revised edition of Sterne's extraordinary novel retains the text based on the first editions of the original nine volumes (with Sterne's later changes), adds two illustrations by William Hogarth, and expands and updates the introduction, bibliography, and notes, to make this the most critically up-to-date edition available. The text of the novel preserves, as far as possible, the appearance of Sterne's idiosyncratic typography and features such as black pages, marbled pages, blank pages, missing chapters and other devices. The introduction sheds light on the novel's innovations and influence and provides a biographical account of the author. Comprehensive notes identify the profusion of references and reveal previously overlooked sources. The book will appear in time for the 250th anniversary of the publication of first two volumes.

Author Biography

Ian Campbell Ross is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies at Trinity College Dublin.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii	(18)
Note on the text	xxv	(1)
Select bibliography	xxvi	(2)
Chronology of Laurence Sterne	xxviii
TRISTRAM SHANDY
VOLUME I	1	(64)
VOLUME II	65	(58)
VOLUME III	123	(72)
VOLUME IV	195	(76)
VOLUME V	271	(56)
VOLUME VI	327	(56)
VOLUME VII	383	(50)
VOLUME VIII	433	(48)
VOLUME IX	481	(59)
Notes	540	(54)
List of Emendations	594