{"product_id":"tristram-shandy-9781853262913","title":"Tristram Shandy","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Laurence Sterne\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Wordsworth Classics\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Wordsworth Classics\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Classics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLaurence Sterne's \u003cem\u003eThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman\u003c\/em\u003e is a huge literary paradox, for it is both a novel and an anti-novel. As a comic novel replete with bawdy humour and generous sentiments, it introduces us to a vivid group of memorable characters, variously eccentric, farcical and endearing. As an anti-novel, it is a deliberately tantalising and exuberantly egoistic work, ostentatiously digressive, involving the reader in the labyrinthine creation of a purported autobiography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis mercurial eighteenth-century text thus anticipates modernism and postmodernism. Vibrant and bizarre, \u003cem\u003eTristram Shandy\u003c\/em\u003e provides an unforgettable experience. We may see why Nietzsche termed Sterne 'the most liberated spirit of all time'.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wordsworth Classics","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45031836024983,"sku":"9781853262913","price":423.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781853262913.webp?v=1769207303","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/tristram-shandy-9781853262913","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}