Tristram Shandy
This Norton Critical Edition includes:
Ā¬ā The first London edition (1759) of Sterne's revolutionary and influential novel.
Ā¬ā Textual notes, explanatory footnotes, and a preface by Judith Hawley.
Ā¬ā Three illustrations.
Ā¬ā The Author on the Novel, fourteen judiciously chosen letters from the latest scholarly edition.
Ā¬ā A wide range of early responses that demonstrate Tristram Shandy's changing reception from its publication through the nineteenth century.
Ā¬ā Eleven major critical interpretations, ten of them new to this edition.
Ā¬ā A Chronology of Laurence Sterne's life and work and a Selected Bibliography.
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