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Tristram Shandy (Wordsworth Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Laurence Sterne
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Category: Book
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 22984
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 474
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Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 1
ISBN: 1853262919
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781853262913
ASIN: 1853262919
Publication Date: March 1, 1996
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 The book's great, this edition isn't! May 17, 2008
Mr. Robert J. Berry (Liverpool, UK)
Giving Tristram Shandy a 1-star review makes me shudder, but I feel it's imperative that everyone knows this edition comes without -any- notes. If you're widely read and know a bit about the period this might not be a huge problem, but even then you're probably going to miss a lot with Sterne, who is a very allusive writer. I recommend getting another edition, most will come with notes.
 brilliant and witty October 25, 2001
1indigo.ripcord1@mailcity.com (southampton, England)
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
The humour may have aged but nothing has altered the unusual and humourous relationship that 'Tristram' creates with the reader. It is a distruction of the usual relationship between the all-knowing narrator and the reader. Yes, Tristram knows all but he tries to tell too much. It takes a reader who questions what Tristram is telling us, who finds humour in the seemingly innocent ambiguity of the text, who sees that Sterne is laughing at our exense to enjoy this novel.
Great value for its sheer scholarly copiousness! June 13, 2001
Tim Gambrell (London United Kingdom)
36 out of 37 found this review helpful
What Laurence Sterne has given us in 'Tristram Shandy' is a landmark piece of prose writing, and what Penguin have done is to re-package that in an edition of equal status. The text follows the established 'Florida' edition of Sterne's work, and the editor Melvin New is right to acknowledge the scholarly importance of Christopher Ricks introduction to the previous Penguin edition, hence it is reprinted here along with New's up to date and equally copious editor's introduction. Thus we have two critical essays by major scholars covering much of what has been written and said about 'Tristram Shandy' for the last 50 years or so. Add to that a glossary and over a hundred pages of notes and annotations to clarify the text's obscurities and references and you've already got more than your money's worth before you've got to the text proper. And what a text too. It isn't by any means to everyone's taste, and some may think it a complete waste of six hundred-odd pages, but herein lies its charm. Yes, it doesn't really get anywhere, and yes it does do odd things like printing squiggly lines and black pages, but it is just this breaking of convention and questioning of novel writing that gives it its power - and humour. It has long been established that what Postmodern authors have been praised for in the last 30 years or so Sterne was doing in the 1760s. And here it is displayed with such exuberance and wit. This is a very funny book, even now, over 300 years later, and it is easy to see how it caused such a stir in a society which was rapidly becoming affected and prudish, with its sexual innuendo. A must for scholars and lovers of Eighteenth Century writing, humour and curiosities. Incredible value and not to be missed.
Drivel that is trying too hard to shock and be humourous March 9, 2000
15 out of 56 found this review helpful
I was eagerly looking forward to read this since it was meant to break out of the mould of novel writing.Alas, I am sure that it was popular at the time, however, the in-jokes are just unfunny and the exegetic notes need constant review (the notes to the book are 40-50 pages long) otherwise the text is genuinely meaningless. Sadly, this is the first Penguin Classic that I cannot recommend, and I urge those who love the 19th Century Russian Penguin classics to ignore Sterne and leave him to the preserves of dry academics.
18th Century Magic Realism November 17, 1999
24 out of 27 found this review helpful
And they say James Joyce is difficult! Laurence Sterne tale, which was published originally as a periodical, tells the story of Tristram Shady's forefathers, his birth and life. In doing so, Laurence Sterne plays jokes with the narrative form and the very nature of writing. The story starts, stops, re-starts and stops again and follows deviations up dead ends and full stops, left right and centre. Sterne was in his time, a clever and funny writer with a keen sense of the vulgar and it's his skill as a writer that tempts you to follow this complex narrative. Ultimately the commitment needed to keep up with his style outweighs the pleasure of trying to understand 18th century puns, most of which are about willies anyway. In truth more a forefather to Flan O'Brien than James Joyce, Sterne is a very specialist taste, try before you buy.
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