Tristram Shandy (Annotated)

Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy is one of the eighteenth century's most audacious comic novels, a mock-autobiography in which the narrator's attempt to recount his life continually collapses into digression, delay, typography, anecdote, and philosophical play. Drawing on Cervantes, Rabelais, Locke, and the sentimental tradition, Sterne transforms narrative disorder into art, making form itself t...