Tristram Shandy

Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne One of the first novels in English ... and a buoyant, postmodern romp.

We were shown the little room not more than nine feet square where Sterne, when vicar, wrote his greatest book, "Tristram Shandy."

Moses Mendelssohn writes to him in the summer of 1763:31 Tristram Shandy is a work of masterly originality.

I walked ahead a few miles, then sat down and studied my Milton, or dug deep into Tristram Shandy.

The first two volumes of Tristram Shandy were published towards the end of 1759.

He settled himself to Tristram Shandy with appreciation, but Geoffrey could not read.