The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Laurence Sterne First published 1760

About this book

Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth and life of the unfortunate 'hero' Tristram Shandy, the eccentric philosophy of his father Walter, the amours and military obsessions of Uncle Toby, and a host of other characters.

Subjects

  • authorship
  • british
  • british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • classic literature
  • clergy
  • coming of age
  • england, fiction
  • english fiction
  • families
  • fetus
  • fiction
  • fiction -- authorship -- fiction.
  • fiction, general
  • infants
  • life and opinions of tristram shandy, gentleman (sterne, laurence)
  • parent and child
  • parent and child, fiction
  • pregnancy, fiction
  • social life and customs
  • sterne, laurence, 1713-1768
  • travelers
  • young men