The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin Classics Series)

<p>The comic masterpiece <b>Tristram Shandy</b> is often regarded as a progenitor of the twentieth century novel. Within the resolutely tangled strands of this narrative is the life, from conception, of a gentleman cursed at birth with the name Tristram. Though everything occurs between parlor and garden, Tristram's excitable father, bewildered mother, and Uncle Toby provide ample opportunity for the digressions and madcap events that structure this seminal novel.</p> <p><b>@ACockAndBallsStory</b> I’ve just been born, and I had a tragic accident. A windowpane fell on me, and flattened my dic— NOSE. My nose! That was almost embarrassing.</p> <p>Chapter XIX: I don’t feel like tweeting today.</p> <p><b>From <i>Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less</i></b></p>

Author(s): Laurence Sterne  

ISBN 10: 0141439777
ISBN 13: 9780141439778
Pages: 720
Format: Paperback
Publication: June 2003
Edition: Revised