Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library

The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman

Label
The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Series statement
Penguin classics
Summary
Though Tristram is always present as narrator and commentator, the book contains little of his life, only the story of a trip through France and accounts of the four comical mishaps which shaped the course of his life from an early age. Firstly, while still only a homunculus, Tristram's implantation within his mother's womb was disturbed. At the very moment of procreation, his mother asked his father if he had remembered to wind the clock
Target audience
adult
Classification
Content