This Norton Critical Edition includes:· The first London edition (1759) of Sterne’s revolutionary and influential novel.· Textual notes, explanatory footnotes, and a preface by Judith Hawley.· Three illustrations.· The Author on the Novel, fourteen judiciously chosen letters from the latest scholarly edition.Tristram Shandy’s· Eleven major critical interpretations, ten of them new to this edition.· A Chronology of Laurence Sterne’s life and work and a Selected Bibliography. About the Series