Tristram Shandy
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In 1759, at the beginning of the history of the English novel, Laurence Sterne began publishing installments of his metadramatic novel, “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 15, 2023
Such remorseless self-examination – from Tristram Shandy and Huckleberry Finn to Tender Is the Night and The Naked and the Dead – is the novel’s timeless business.
From The Guardian • May 27, 2018
Even though I like Sterne’s “A Sentimental Journey,” I’ve never managed to get through “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.”
From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2018
When a country parson published the first two volumes of the rollicking, digressive The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, in 1759, it quickly became a publishing sensation.
From The Guardian • Jul. 29, 2017
Froude remarks that a fine critic once said to him that Carlyle's Friedrich Wilhelm was as peculiar and original as Sterne's Tristram Shandy; certainly as distinct a personality as exists in English fiction.
From Thomas Carlyle Famous Scots Series by Macpherson, Hector Carsewell
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