Laurence Sterne

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

A mess, entertaining, sometimes impossible but it's new even for our times

Atrix 

Eugenia Andino

I read the first third of this book for class about six years ago. I liked it, but never found the time or the will to finish it.

Daryl Houston

This was a labor if ever there was one. Early on, I debated abandoning it but decided to stick it out since it's supposed to be a pillar of our literature. There are some funny bits, and surely it was audacious for its time, but this was about as much of a slog as I've worked through.

Alawander Bouston 

Liam Holbrook

Will Vunderink

James Miller

Deniz Erkaradağ

Kelsi Proulx

Giovanni Garcia-Fenech 

Introduction and Notes by Robert Folkenflik Rich in playful double entendres, digressions, formal oddities, and typographical experiments, "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman "provoked a literary sensation when it first appeared in England in a series of volumes from 1759 to 1767. An ingeniously structured novel (about writing a novel) that fascinates like a verbal game of chess, "Tristram Shandy "is the most protean and playful English novel of the eighteenth century and a celebration of the art of fiction; its inventiveness anticipates the work of Joyce, Rushdie, and Fuentes in our own century. This Modern Library Paperback is set from the nine-volume first edition from 1759.

Rose Stanley

Kaitee Tredway

Shreyaa

Kate Allman

Greta V. 

Joshua Line

Amro Gebreel

Will Self

When talking to people about visual writing, conversations always seem to come back to The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Originally published in the late 18th century in nine volumes, it is still one of the most contemporary books around in terms of how it looks and reads. When Visual Editions briefed design studio, A Practice for Everyday Life, they asked them to breathe new life into the book's design, adding new visual elements, while staying faithful to the original spirit. Will Self introduces the book with typically irreverent brilliance.

Lily Bradic

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

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