THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY, GENTLEMAN

The Collector's Edition published in advance by reservation for subscribers to the Easton Press collection of The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written. With an Introduction by Christopher Morley and Illustrations by T.M. Cleland. 8vo, bound in the publisher's original terra-cotta leather, the covers fully gilt in an all-over design, the spine with raised bands separating the compartments, the compartments fully decorated and lettered in gilt, silk doublures and endleaves, all edges gilt, silk ribbon marker. xiv, 444 pp. A pristine copy, as mint.

Edizione: a fine and important work and a cornerstone of english literature and the stream-of-consciousness novel. <br> "tristram shandy became the prototype of the english picaresque novel, yet it is a unique book - a riot of words, in which the reader will find himself, at one time or another, bemused by whole lines of dashes, entire paragraphs of asterisks, pages left bland, pages covered with ink, one-sentence chapters, deliberately misplaced chapters and unfinished sentences. there are wittily lewd passages, there is stream-of-consciousness technique, there is malicious satire-and in spite of its hodgepodge construction, tristram shandy is an incomparble and irresistible work." - the publisher<br>