Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 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.Sterne, Laurence is the author of 'Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman' with ISBN 9780395051450 and ISBN 0395051452.