The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman | Laurence Sterne

<p>&apos;L-d! said my mother, what is all this story about? - A COCK and a BULL, said Yorick - And one of the best of its kind, I ever heard&apos;One of the greatest novels ever written, now in a wonderful new clothbound edition Laurence Sterne&apos;s great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it, with a rich metafictional narrative that might classify it as the first &apos;postmodern&apos;novel. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth and life of the unfortunate &apos;hero&apos;Tristram Shandy, the eccentric philosophy of his father Walter, the amours and military obsessions of Uncle Toby, and a host of other characters, including Dr Slop, Corporal Trim and the parson Yorick. A joyful celebration of the endless possibilities of the art of fiction, Tristram Shandy is also a wry demonstration of its limitations.<br /><br />The text and notes of this volume are based on the acclaimed Florida Edition, w