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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Now seen as one of the great English comic novels, `Tristram Shandy'' caused a stir on publication in polite 18th-century English society. The novel broke with conventions of form and structure, foreshadowing postmodern authors by 200 years, and scandalized with bawdy descriptions and rambling prose. Hugely influenced by Francis Bacon, Rabelais and Jonathan Swift, clergyman Lawrence Sterne manages to both el...