The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

By Laurence Sterne

Subjects: Parent and child, fiction, Pregnancy, fiction, Clergy, Infants, Young men, Classic Literature, Fiction, Fiction -- Authorship -- Fiction., British, Families, Travelers, Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman (Sterne, Laurence), Sterne, laurence, 1713-1768, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Authorship, English fiction, Fetus, Social life and customs, England, fiction, Fiction, general, Coming of age, Parent and child

Description: 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.