The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Sterne's utterly original novel - the meandering, maddening 'autobiography' of one of literature's oldest comic characters.Doomed to become the sport of fortune by an interruption at the crucial moment of conception, Tristram Shandy s life lurches from one mishap to another: his nose crushed by the doctor s forceps during birth, christened with the wrong name, an unfortunate incident involving a...