With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.
As an anti-novel, it is a deliberately tantalising and exuberantly egoistic work, ostentati.
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.
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.
With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex