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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY TOM MCCARTHY
Doomed to become the sport of fortune by an interruption at the crucial moment of conception, Tristram Shandys life lurches from one mishap to another: his nose crushed by the doctors forceps during birth, christened with the wrong name, an unfortunate incident involving a slamming sash window Discover the anti-autobiography of the hilarious and impossibly long-windedTristram Shandy.
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Laurence Sterne was born in 1713, the younger son of a landowning Yorkshire family. He studied at Jesus College, Cambridge and was ordained in 1738. Sterne's dramas were mostly personal, including bitter quarrels with his wife and uncle, and some high profile affairs. The publication of the first volumes ofThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandyin 1759 made him famous throughout Europe overnight. He went on to complete the remaining volumes over the next seven years. Sterne died in 1768 of tuberculosis, the condition that had dogged him for many years.
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Sterne's utterly original novel - the meandering, maddening 'autobiography' of one of literature's oldest comic characters.
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