Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne.epub May 2026

A 600-page "shaggy dog" story that manages to be about everything and nothing at the same time. It is exhausting, hilarious, and arguably the most influential "experimental" novel ever written. 1. The "Plot" (Or Lack Thereof)

Don't try to "finish" this book for the sake of the ending. Read it for the detours. As Tristram says, "Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine;—they are the life, the soul of reading!" Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne.epub

Perhaps literature’s most lovable eccentric, a soldier who recreates battles in his bowling green because he cannot express his emotions through words. A 600-page "shaggy dog" story that manages to

The heart of the book lies in the "hobby-horses"—the obsessive fixations—of the Shandy household. are the sunshine