Laurence Sterne, a clergyman and novelist, drew inspiration from his own travels through France and Italy to write this profound work.

The novel features such memorable characters as Tristram’s parents, his tender uncle Toby, the “man-midwife” Dr. Slop, and pastor Yorick. “Tristram Shandy and its author, Laurence Sterne, are so intensely modern in mood and attitude ...

Many of his similes, for example, are reminiscent of the works of the metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century, and the unconventional as a whole, with its recognition on the problems of language, has regular regard to John Locke's ...

Introduces us to a group of memorable characters, variously eccentric, farcical and endearing. This book involves the reader in the labyrinthine creation of a purported autobiography. It anticipates modernism and postmodernism.

Unabridged republication of the classic 1768 edition.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.