Tristram Shandy

He was sometimes called Tristram Shandy and sometimes Yorick, a very great favourite of the gentlemen.

Sterne Traill, H D 1882

Major Dalton lent him a book called Tristram Shandy, but Sharpe could make neither head nor tail of it.

Sharpe's Trafalgar Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2000

He ate some bread and cheese and read a book Gordonson had loaned him, a novel called Tristram Shandy, but he could not concentrate.

A Place Called Freedom Follett, Ken 1995

It equally recalled Tristram Shandy and The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor, and anticipated David Lynch, while some call it the thinking man's The Name of the Rose.

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

It equally recalled Tristram Shandy and The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor, and anticipated David Lynch, while some call it the thinking man's The Name of the Rose.

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

It equally recalled Tristram Shandy and The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor, and anticipated David Lynch, while some call it the thinking man's The Name of the Rose.

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

George's trial, Lord Ferrers's, and the account of him; a fashionable thing called Tristram Shandy, and my Lord Lyttelton's new Dialogues of the Dead, or rather Dead Dialogues; and something less valuable still than any of these, but which I flatter myself you will not despise; it is my own print, done from a picture that is reckoned very like -- you must allow for the difference that twenty years since you saw me have made.

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3 Horace Walpole 1757

In his little book on Gogol, Nabokov writes of Gogolian metaphors in which a whole distracting world is contained, perhaps a sign of the immense influence of "Tristram Shandy," with its perpetual digressions, on Russian literature.

John Cheever's Cruel Paradoxes 2010

In his little book on Gogol, Nabokov writes of Gogolian metaphors in which a whole distracting world is contained, perhaps a sign of the immense influence of "Tristram Shandy," with its perpetual digressions, on Russian literature.

John Cheever's Cruel Paradoxes 2010

In 1983, this sort of livre de goofball met the livre de peintre in John Baldessari's appropriately enigmatic photocollage version of "Tristram Shandy," the prophetically nonlinear 18th-century novel by Laurence Sterne.

Making Book The Hard Way 2008