TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sterne,Laurence
AU  - Ross,Ian Campbell
TI  - The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman
T2  - Oxford world's classics
SN  - 0199532893
AV  - PR3714 .T7 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Infants
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Fetus
KW  - Authorship
KW  - England
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Introduction -- Note on the text -- Select bibliography -- A chronology of Laurence Sterne -- Tristam Shandy -- Explanatory notes -- List of emendations
N2  - 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. - Publisher
ER  -